'That's not rape!' Tarantino's 2003 interview with Howard Stern
HOWARD STERN: How can you defend, see I don't understand this, how come Hollywood embraces this madman, this director, who raped a 13-year-old girl?
QUENTIN TARANTINO: He didn't rape a 13-year-old. It was statutory rape, that's not quite the same thing.
It's statutory rape. He had sex with a minor. That's not rape. To me, when you use the word rape, you're talking about violent, throwing them down... it's like one of the most violent crimes in the world.
You can't throw the word 'rape' around, it's like throwing the word 'racist' around. It doesn't apply to everything that people use it for. He was guilty of having sex with a minor.
ROBIN QUIVERS: That she didn't want to have?
QT: No that wasn't the case at all. She wanted to have it. Dated the guy…
RQ: She was 13!
QT: And by the way, we're talking about America's morals, we're not talking about the morals in Europe and everything.
HS: Wait a minute. You have sex with a 13-year-old girl and you're a grown man, you know that that's wrong...
RQ: Giving her booze and pills...
QT: Look, she was down with it... and she's talked about it. She's talked about it. I'm right, she's talked about it since. Like "no, he didn't do anything to me, it was the technicality of being 13."
Now she's an adult, she's got a whole other story. Of course she's gonna say this because she knows she was in trouble with her mom.
I've met him once, but he's not a friend or anything. His version sounds more likely, sounds really really more likely.
HS: He could get a girl his own age…
QT: He likes girls!
HS: If you had a daughter... if he had intercourse with her?
QT: Yes, there's be a bullet in Polanski's head...
HS: You would kill him?
QT: I'd beat the hell out of him, but the situation was not that she was against this, she was down to party with Roman.
Lets talk about it the way it was. She was down with the party, he was down with the party. I don't believe its rape for these 13-year-old party girls.
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carmencita ago
I don't care if she was doing the Dance of the Seven Veils. She was 13. It is and always was Rape..
TrendyCantina ago
And this attitude of his is so common, we had the MEDIA and COPS in Omaha referring to a 12 year old as "dating her 23 year old boyfriend" when she went missing last month. No one mentioned pedophilia, it was like a normal thing to refer to a 12 year old as if she was an adult able to make decisions like who she'd like to date (have sex with).
carmencita ago
Another way we can make a difference is when we are discussing a sexual abuse case with friends or relatives. When it involves children and they call it sexual abuse, say yes, but that is also called pedophilia. That makes the perpetrator a pedophile. That word is a very dirty word to most people (except for the pedos) and it will shake them up even though they may not say so. It will stay with them. Believe me. It has worked with me. Unfortunately most people do not use the word. It is that hated. I believe it needs to become part of our vocabulary more often.
TrendyCantina ago
I agree. If pedophilia is a part of our culture to the degree it is, it should be an equally prevalent topic of discussion.
carmencita ago
Well, I don't think it is really that much a part of our culture, they have just been trying to make us believe that it is. I have not researched the percentages, but compared to the world's population, I think it is still pretty low. Now, has it been spreading? Yes. And yes, I agree with you that it should be up for discussion. But bringing it up to others, is the problem. Many do not want you to mention it. We have to change that. I was discussing these crimes with someone in our hood and he, at the age of 75 had to ask me What is pedophilia. I told him and I could see he was very uncomfortable. I have been thinking lately, that maybe it is so uncomfortable because many have also been abused. Possibly the number of abuses is much higher than we think.
TrendyCantina ago
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