‘They Want Me to Shut Up’: Tarantino Rails Against Critics on MSNBC
Quentin Tarantino spoke with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tonight in his first TV interview on his controversial remarks about the police. When he spoke at a rally against police brutality in New York weeks ago, the director said, “I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered and I have to call the murderers the murderers.”
As a result, multiple police unions have called for a boycott of his movies. Fox News has been hammering him, and in an op-ed yesterday Tarantino said critics have taken him out of context.
On MSNBC tonight, he explained that he believes that individuals like Walter Scott and Tamir Rice were murdered, and said of his critics, “I was under the impression that I was an American and I had First Amendment rights.”
Tarantino repeatedly made it clear to Hayes he is not anti-cop and thinks the reason people are attacking him is because it’s easier to pick a fight with a celebrity than to actually address a serious issue.
He said they’re “being inflammatory” and “slandering” him with their fake outrage, declaring that people “want me to shut up” just like they want to dismiss anyone who thinks there might be a police problem in America.
Hayes asked Tarantino if he’s had any blowback from the studio behind his new movie The Hateful Eight. He said there really hasn’t been any.
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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