After releasing a short public statement last week and promising to speak at length about his friend and former producer Harvey Weinstein, Quentin Tarantino has now followed through on his promise — in an explosive interview with The New York Times.

“I knew enough to do more than I did,” admitted the director. Every one of Tarantino’s films was produced by Weinstein — who is now being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department. “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.”

Expanding on what he specifically knew about Weinstein’s behavior, the recently engaged filmmaker, 54, said a former girlfriend, actress Mira Sorvino, had informed him of unwanted touching and other physical advances from Weinstein.

Sorvino was one of the actresses to go public about her experiences with the producer for a report than ran in The New Yorker.

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Sorvino had told Tarantino while they were dating in the ’90s that Weinstein had — years before — given her an unwanted massage, and then chased her around a New York hotel room after she refused his advances.

“I was shocked and appalled,” said Tarantino, recalling his reaction to what Sorvino told him. “I couldn’t believe he would do that so openly. I was like: ‘Really? Really?’ But the thing I thought then, at the time, was that he was particularly hung up on Mira.”

“I thought Harvey was hung up on her in this Svengali kind of way,” the filmmaker added. “[And] because he was infatuated with her, he horribly crossed the line.”

Tarantino said that another actress told him another story of harassment years later. He’d confronted Weinstein — and the producer offered up what the director said was a weak apology to the woman.

“I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard.”

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Tarantino revealed he was also aware of the settlement Weinstein had reached with actress Rose McGowan.

“I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard,” the “Pulp Fiction” director admitted. “If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him.”

Though Tarantino was aware of some incidents, he said he didn’t piece it together into a larger pattern of behavior by Weinstein — a man who turned Tarantino from a video store clerk into a full-fledged Hollywood director by producing 1992’s “Reservoir Dogs.”

“What I did was marginalize the incidents,” said Tarantino. “Anything I say now will sound like a crappy excuse.”

He added that more people in Hollywood knew of Weinstein’s inappropriate behavior even if they, like him, did not know the scope of it.

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“Everyone who was close to Harvey had heard of at least one of those incidents,” he said. “It was impossible they didn’t.”

“I chalked it up to a ’50s, ’60s-era image of a boss chasing a secretary around the desk,” he added. “As if that’s OK. That’s the egg on my face right now.”

Tarantino apologized several times for not doing more, and he called for major changes to Hollywood’s power structure. He said the industry has been “operating under an almost Jim Crow-like system that us males have almost tolerated,” and “we allowed it to exist because that’s the way it was.”

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He also encouraged more men to come forward and admit their knowledge or suspicions about Weinstein’s actions over the years.

“I’m calling 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.”

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