Melissa Silverstein, who runs the feminist movie blog Women & Hollywood and does online marketing for films aimed at women, was angered by the industry’s reaction to Polanski’s arrest and found the silence of disapproval “deafening.”

“I think people are afraid to talk in Hollywood. They are afraid about their next job,” she said. “I don’t know where the women of Hollywood are. This is an opportunity for them to stand up for their daughters.”…

In an interview, Weinstein said that people generally misunderstand what happened to Polanski at sentencing. He’s not convinced public opinion is running against the filmmaker and dismisses the categorization of Hollywood as amoral. “Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion,” Weinstein said. “We were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims of 9/11. We were there for the victims of Katrina and any world catastrophe.”