So not only do they take no responsibility for him, but they themselves don’t even disavow the ugliness.
Via Breitbart:
Harvey Weinstein’s studio has broken its silence over filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s anti-police statements, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Amid a growing nationwide boycott of Tarantino’s upcoming film, a spokesperson for The Weinstein Company told THR on Tuesday the studio would not speak for Tarantino, adding he can “speak for himself,” in regards to the Oscar-winning director’s description of police officers as “murderers.”
Addressing an anti-police rally in New York nearly two weeks ago, Tarantino stood before a sign that read “Stop Police Terror.” He then said, “When I see murders, I do not stand by… I have to call a murder a murder, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.”
The comments were made just days after Randolph Holder, a 33 year-old off-duty police officer, was murdered in East Harlem while pursuing an armed suspect.
Tarantino’s comments initiated a boycott of his highly anticipated upcoming western The Hateful Eight by nationwide law enforcement agencies.
Amid fears the boycott will hurt the film financially, Hateful Eight’s distributor spoke exclusively to THR Tuesday, breaking weeks of silence.
While Tarantino has refused to apologize, despite a condemnation of his comments by his own father, TWC said in a press release:
The Weinstein Co. has a longstanding relationship and friendship with Quentin and has a tremendous amount of respect for him as a filmmaker… We don’t speak for Quentin, he can and should be allowed to speak for himself.