“There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip.

It wasn’t secondhand.

I knew he did a couple of these things.”

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… What I did was marginalize the incidents.

Anything I say now will sound like a crappy excuse."

The two men have been linked since the beginning of Tarantino’s career.

Earlier this year, Weinstein even threw Tarantino a party to celebrate his recent engagement.

“It was impossible they didn’t.”

Speaking to theTimes, Tarantino also called on “the other guys who knew more to not be scared.

Don’t just give out statements.

Acknowledge that there was something rotten in Denmark.

Vow to do better by our sisters.”

He added, “What was previously accepted is now untenable to anyone of a certain consciousness.”