(Ben Mankiewicz) You're a Hollywood filmmaker, why was it important for you to show up at that rally?
Why was talking about this important?
What, in your life,
your experience, has made your voice vital or necessary to this movement?
(Quentin Tarantino) if, for the last year and a half, you have been sitting at home
and watching seemingly, one incident after another of black and brown people
uh -- unarmed, being shot by the police in extremely questionable ways
and.. not having the patrol officers, for the most part, facing anything other than internal tribunals
(Ben) Yeah..
and -- uh, you know, and the prosecutors are not represent-- you know
uh -- The prosecutor that was involved in the case did not represent Tamir Rice.
(Ben) Right.
He represented the cop who shot him.
(Ben) That's right. (Quentin) And that's just not okay.
And, um,
and, you know, what's going on in Chicago right now,
is..
when you look at that video that's come out in the last few days and it's..
overtipping the Chicago governmental system like an apple cart
(Ben) Yeah.
(Quentin) and as disturbing as the shooting is,
in its own way, as equally disturbing, is there must've been
eight or nine cops on the scene right there.
And none of them said anything, none of them did anything, none of them changed their stories
(stutters) None of them, uh, um
They just shut up and they let this thing -- uh -- cover-up happen, for a year now
You know, this makes you ask a question 'Well, whose side are you on?'
(Ben) Uh -- but you could've chosen a lot of sides, I mean you didn't have to involve yourself in this
I was just curious what made that -- what made you fly to New York and--
(Quentin) I think it just reached a point, you know, if you've been watching it and you've been getting
sick by it, you have to say what side you are on.
You can't be silent anymore about it. You can't--
You know if this is -- If you feel that this is what it is, then you have to stand out against it
and I've never really been political before, I've never talked about stuff like this before
I was always really proud of the fact that in "Team America", I wasn't one of the people they were making fun of
and I still want to hold onto my status to that degree, to one way or another, um,
however -- but -- I'm actually, I'm.. I'm sick of this it actually is sickening.
and it's reached a point that it just must stop.
and (stutters) I have to have my voice be counted amongst the people who are saying "Stop it!"
and part of it, though, was going to that rally--
it wasn't just walking down the streets and saying "Hell no! We won't go!", alright?
It was meeting the families-- (Ben) Yeah. (Quentin) --that this happened to
and hearing in their own words, in their own stories, uh, uh, what happened to their loved ones.
And.. once you hear that, and you meet with these people and you walk with these people,
there really, kind of, is no going back anymore.
