Quentin Tarantino revealed that he is not backing down and retracting his statement against the cops, in the face of the police boycott of his upcoming film The Hateful Eight.

Tarantino spoke to the Los Angeles Times about the matter. The National Police Union had recently supported the boycott of Tarantino films by cops as their form of protest against Tarantino's commentts comparing them to murderers in light of the recent contentious cases of police burtality.

Despite the massive backlash Tarantino is holding his ground, albeit he does believe he was misunderstood.

"All cops are not murderers," Tarantino said. "I never said that. I never even implied that."

The director went on to be critical of the extreme response to his comments, and how the cops weren't dealing with the real problem and instead making him a scapegoat.

"What they're doing is pretty obvious," he said of his critics. "Instead of dealing with the incidents of police brutality that those people were bringing up, instead of examining the problem of police brutality in this country, better they single me out. And their message is very clear. It's to shut me down. It's to discredit me. It is to intimidate me. It is to shut my mouth, and even more important than that, it is to send a message out to any other prominent person that might feel the need to join that side of the argument."

The movie will release on Dec. 25, 2015.

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