Quentin Tarantino is a cult director whose films have become classics of world cinema. However, few people know that he was behind bars three times — however, only for a few days and exclusively for traffic violations.
In one of his interviews, the author of Pulp Fiction said that he spent eight days in a county jail for unpaid fines. Tarantino admitted that at first he thought he would find inspiration for his dialogues there, but quickly changed his mind:
"They treat you like an animal, and no one wants to be treated like that."
Later, biographer Jeffrey Sparrow clarified: the director had accumulated unpaid fines, and he was detained on warrants. In the end, this cost the director several thousand dollars more than he was earning at the time.
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