His sponsors were going to pull their money from the festival though. So I get it. He was under pressure from his partner that runs the festival with him too. And at least he spoke out on television a couple of times after that and made it really clear that he thought everybody should go see the film and that it was worthy to be seen.
Crazy though that no movie has EVER been banned before!
I guess I'm just one of those crazy people...principles are more important than money. Probably why I'm poor.