Quentin Tarantino kept a promise he made to mother during a fight to never help her financially

Quentin Tarantino vowed to never share his money with his mother.

At the time, a young Tarantino was spending his time in school writing screenplays, which his teachers viewed as an act of "rebellion," presumably because he was not assigned to write said screenplays. This caused some friction between him and his mother, Connie Zastoupil. One day, when he got in some trouble, his mother noted during a lecture that she was not going to indulge his writing habit any longer.  "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--t is over,’" he explained (via the Independent).