Rosanna Arquette has slammed Quentin Tarantino's "racist and creepy" use of the N-word in his films.

The 66-year-old actress starred in the director's 1994 movie Pulp Fiction, and while she still believes the film was "iconic and great", she hit out at the fact he has seemingly been given a "hall pass" to use the controversial slur in his work.

She told The Times magazine: "It's iconic, a great film on a lot of levels. But personally I am over the use of the N-word -- I hate it.

"I cannot stand that he [Tarantino] has been given a hall pass. It's not art, it's just racist and creepy."

Rosanna also claimed she is the only person who worked on Pulp Fiction not to have "made money" because she was denied a percentage of the box office takings, for which she blames disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.

She said: "I'm the only person who didn't get a back end [a share of the takings]. Everybody made money except me."

In the early 1990s, Rosanna had gone to meet with Weinstein about her script and she alleged that, when she got to his room at the Beverly Hills Hotel, he was wearing just a bathroom and tried to put her hand on his penis, and she went on to "pay the price" for spurning his advances.

She said: "I was fortunate because I was not raped. But, boy, was it going there and I paid a price for saying no, and later I paid a price for telling the truth."

Rosanna - who was one of a number of actresses to speak out about Weinstein for Ronan Farrow's 2017 New Yorker expose, which ultimately led to his arrest and 16-year jail sentence - and she believes he tried to stop directors from casting her.

She recalled: "There's a photo of a charity auction at the Cannes Film Festival [in 2001]. I look really thin and he's standing next to me, but you can see the horror in my smile. I was not a comfortable woman."

Meanwhile, Spike Lee is among other critics of Tarantino's use of the N-word, slamming its "excessive use" in the filmmaker's 1997 movie Jackie Brown.

He said at the time: "I have a definite problem with Quentin Tarantino's excessive use of the N-word.

"And let the record state that I never said that he cannot use that word -- I've used that word in many of my films -- but I think something is wrong with him."

And he spoke out again after Tarantino used the slur over 110 times in 2012's Django Unchained, which stars Jamie Foxx as the titular slave.

Spike told Vibe magazine: "It's disrespectful to my ancestors. That's just me. … I'm not speaking on behalf of anybody else."

Tarantino has previously insisted he won't make changes as a result of the public criticism.

He told the Hollywood Reporter in 2012: "Not one word of social criticism that's been levelled my way has ever changed one word of any script or any story I tell.

"I believe in what I'm doing wholeheartedly and passionately. It's my job to ignore that."