Quentin Tarantino knows why, at 46, he’s still not married. “I’m sweet, and I mean well, but relationships with me are slightly problematic because I was an only child,” he tells Alex Pappademas in GQ. “People who grow up with brothers and sisters learn how to be alone while they’re with other people. I never learned how to do that. An old girlfriend told me that there would be times when she could tell her very physical presence was oppressive to me.” It doesn’t help that Tarantino is obsessively focused on his career. “When I’m doing a movie, I’m not doing anything else. It’s all about the movie. Nothing can get in my way. The whole world can go to hell and burst into flames. I don’t care. If you’re climbing Mount Everest, you’re not doing anything else. All your concerns, all the mundane things, family, any of that, it just—pfft—disappears. I’m not saying that I’ll never get married or have a kid before I’m 60. But I’ve made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone.” So if he ever does meet the right woman, he says, she’d better be a big fan of his work. “My whole life is about my art. To reject me as an artist is to completely reject me.”
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