Quentin Tarantino recently sat down for an interview with Vulture where he gave more insight on his highly anticipated film 'The Hateful Eight,' along with what he thinks about the current state of filmmaking.

He begins with addressing the comparison between his film and 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,' considering the Civil War backdrop:

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly doesn't get into the racial conflicts of the Civil War; it's just a thing that's happening. My movie is about the country being torn apart by it, and the racial aftermath, six, seven, eight, ten years later."

Tarantino also draws comparison to the recent Baltimore and Ferguson riots:

"Finally, the issue of white supremacy is being talked about and dealt with. And it's what the movie's about.... It was already in the script. It was already in the footage we shot. It just happens to be timely right now. We're not trying to make it timely. It is timely. I love the fact that people are talking and dealing with the institutional racism that has existed in this country and been ignored. I feel like it's another '60s moment, where the people themselves had to expose how ugly they were before things could change. I'm hopeful that that's happening now."

In response to how he feels about the film industry, Tarantino states:

"My pessimism isn't about franchise filmmaking. That's been going on since I was born. You can talk about Transformers now, but you could talk about the Planet of the Apes movies and James Bond when I was a little kid - and I couldn't wait to see those... I don't know why Spielberg and Lucas would be complaining about movies like that. They don't have to direct them.

"The movies that used to be treated as independent movies, like the Sundance movies of the '90s - those are the movies that are up for Oscars now. Stuff like The Kids Are All Right and The Fighter. They're the mid-budget movies now, they just have bigger stars and bigger budgets. They're good, but I don't know if they have the staying power that some of the movies of the '90s and the '70s did. I don't know if we're going to be talking about The Town or The Kids Are All Right or An Education 20 or 30 years from now."

'The Hateful Eight' drops in theaters on December 25.