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There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

Americans love to read about violence.

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.