Quentin Tarantino’s mum gives classiest response after director admits he hasn’t given her ‘a penny’

Quentin Tarantino’s mother has responded in the classiest fashion after her son publicly admitted that he hasn’t given her “a penny” of his fortune.

The award-winning director, worth an estimated $120 million, revealed to Billions co-creator Brian Koppelman on his podcast The Moment that he had vowed never to give her his money after she made negative comments about him pursuing a writing career when he was a child.

Tarantino recalled: “She was bitching at me … about that … and then in the middle of her little tirade, she said, ‘Oh, and by the way, this little ‘writing career’ with the finger quotes and everything. ‘This little ‘writing career’ that you’re doing? That s*** is over!’”

“And when she said that to me in that sarcastic way, I was in my head, and I go, ‘OK, lady. When I become a successful writer, you will never see a penny one from my success. There will be no house for you. There’s no vacation for you, no Elvis Cadillac for Mommy. You get nothing. Because you said that.’”

Koppelman asked the 58-year-old: “Did you stick to that?”

He laughed: “Yeah, yeah... I helped her out with a jam with the IRS. But no house. No Cadillac, no house.”

Tarantino added: “There are consequences for your words as you deal with your children. Remember there are consequences for your sarcastic tone about what’s meaningful to them.”

But Tarantino’s mother Connie Zastoupil appears to have turned the other cheek.

In a statement to USA Today, Zastoupil noted how podcast comments can easily be “spin and go viral without full context” and that she does “not wish to participate in this salacious transactional media frenzy.”

“Regarding my son Quentin – I support him, I’m proud of him and love him and his growing new family,” she said. “It gave me great joy to dance at his wedding and receive his news upon the birth of my Grandson Leo.”

Her son is now one of Hollywood’s most successful directors, famed for films such as 1994’s Pulp Fiction, the Kill Bill series and most recently Once Upon aTime in Hollywood.