From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.
I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying?
Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can't really kill someone, and you don't want to really hurt them.
When the scenes are written really great, we as actors try not to mess them up by getting in the way.
Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.
Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.