The 52-year-old actor says in a new interview that he 'never said' and 'never implied' that all police officers were 'murderers.'
- Nov 4, 2015
AceShowbiz - Quentin Tarantino has broken his silence on police boycott of his upcoming movie"The Hateful Eight". Speaking to Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, November 3, the 52-year-old director defended his anti-police brutality comments, saying it has been misrepresented to "demonize" him and deflect attention away from the issue.
"All cops are not murderers," Quentin told the site, "I never said that. I never even implied that." He explained, "What they're doing is pretty obvious. Instead of dealing with the incidents of police brutality that those people were bringing up, instead of examining the problem of police brutality in this country, better they single me out."
"And their message is very clear. It's to shut me down. It's to discredit me. It is to intimidate me. It is to shut my mouth, and even more important than that, it is to send a message out to any other prominent person that might feel the need to join that side of the argument," he continued.
Quentin, however, refuses to be intimidated by the boycott. "I'm not being intimidated," he shared, "Frankly, it feels lousy to have a bunch of police mouthpieces call me a cop hater. I'm not a cop hater. That is a misrepresentation. That is slanderous. That is not how I feel."
"But you know, that's their choice to do that to me. What can I do? I'm not taking back what I said. What I said was the truth. I'm used to people misrepresenting me; I'm used to being misunderstood," he added, "What I'd like to think their attack against me is so vicious that they're revealing themselves. They're hiding in plain sight."
Police union called for boycott of "Hateful Eight" after Quentin addressed protesters during a rally against police brutality at Washington Square Park on October 24. "I'm a human being with a conscience," the "Pulp Fiction" director said, "And if you believe there's murder going on then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I'm here to say I'm on the side of the murdered. This is not being dealt with in anyway at all. That's why we are out here. If it was being dealt with, then these murdering cops would be in jail or at least be facing charges."
Jamie Foxx showed his support for Quentin at the Hollywood Film Awards on November 1, telling the director, "Keep telling the truth, keep speaking the truth and don't worry about none of the haters."
