Quentin Tarantino On Harvey Weinstein: “I’d Never Heard The Stories That Later Came Out At All”

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Quentin Tarantino made nine films with Harvey Weinstein. Looking back, he claims he didn’t get the entire picture of his wrongdoings.

On tour promoting his new book, Cinema Speculation, Tarantino told HBO’s Chris Wallace that he heard stories, but not all of them. “I’d never heard the stories that later came out at all,” Tarantino told Wallace. “I heard the same stories that everybody had heard.

What I wish I had done was talk to Harvey about it and say, ‘Harvey, you can’t do this.’ To tell you the truth, I chalked it up to a ‘Mad Men’-era version of the boss chasing the secretary around the desk.

I’m not saying that’s ok. That’s how I heard it … in that category. There was never any talk of rape or anything like that. “The reason I didn’t [say something to Weinstein] was because that’s a real hard conversation to have,” Tarantino admitted. “I felt it was pathetic.