My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

Tarantino is pointing to an unusually permissive, cinephile upbringing as a formative influence on his sensibility. By citing adult, violent, or sexually frank films like Mike Nichols’s *Carnal Knowledge* and Sam Peckinpah’s *The Wild Bunch*, he frames his early exposure to transgressive 1960s–70s American cinema as normal within his childhood experience. The remark helps explain his later comfort with provocative material and his tendency to treat exploitation, crime, and screen violence as part of a broader film-history continuum rather than as taboo. It also underscores a recurring Tarantino theme: taste is shaped less by formal education than by what one is allowed—and encouraged—to watch young.