Did Quentin Tarantino say that his motto is to make films, not children?

In the Russian -language segment of the network, you can find a phrase attributed to the cult American director. We checked whether he said something like that.

Quote "Making films, not children - my motto. To the hell of small snotty bastards. I want to have fun "mentioned in the book"Dialogs are my chip. Black commandments Tarantino"(Author - Mickey Knox), in popular posts in Facebook,VKontakte" And Xas well as in network quotes. In February 2025, a resident of Sevastopol, who published this statement in social networks, the Russian court sentenced a fine of 50,000 rubles. For the "propaganda of the attractiveness of the rejection of childbearing." They told about it "Caution, news" The Insider and other publications.

In 2018, Tarantino married On the Israeli singer and model Danielle Peak. Two years later, shortly before the 57th anniversary of the director, the couple was born sonand two more years later - daughter. In January 2025, Tarantino declaredthat he does not want to shoot his new (as expected, last) film until his firstborn is at least six years old. So the current life of a filmmaker directly contradicts the viral quote - at least after the release of the screens “Once upon a time in Hollywood” in 2019 he is engaged in children, not films.

Moreover, the desired phrase is not found in English, and in Russian it is not given in any profile authoritative source or at least with reference to a specific interview. Some Russian -language resources referred to the above -mentioned book by the author named Mickey Knox. So The name was The American actor, in whose honor Tarantino named the protagonist in the script, which became the basis for Oliver Stone's film, Grazy Murderers. However, he was not written by the book about Tarantino in 2020 (the artist was not alive for seven years), but by Russian Elizaveta Migunov, published under the pseudonym Mickey Knox. Apparently, she took a quote for her work from the network.

Therefore, it is not surprising that many Popular Telegram channels, telling a fine of a resident of Sevastopol, said that she was sentenced to fake quote by Tarantino. However, this is not a very correct statement. The director did not always adhere to the current life priorities: for a long time he was not acquired by his family, despite many Romanov. In 2009 in an interview with the magazine GQ Tarantino said:

“When I make a movie, I do not do anything else. All for the sake of cinema. I don't have a wife. I have no child. Nothing can stand in my way. <...> I am not saying that I will never marry or will start a child under 60 years old. But I decided at the moment to follow this path alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make films. ”

Ten years later in an interview with the magazine Time Tarantino made it clear that this approach has exhausted himself:

“I built my whole life to do it. I did not get married, I had no children. I just decided that this was my time to make films. <...> And now it is nearing the end. I want to be able to do other things and not put my life on a con, as I have been doing the last 28 years. I am not upset because of this. "

Thus, although Tarantino did not call his motto the phrase “Make films, not children”, he talked about the time to make films and contrasted his time for children. He also did not call children small snotty bastards and did not express his desire to have fun instead of spending time with them. This strongly distorted and elongated version of the quote from the GQ interview I began to spread In Runet approximately 2013 years. And before about two years circulated A short option “Now the time is to make films, not children”, which can be considered intermediate between the original statement and the current viral version. At the same time, the director Recognizedthat in the early 2000s, as now, he was ill with a "children's fever", that is, he felt a strong desire to have children.

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