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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
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?
There's more than one way to sense violence.
I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
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.
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.
From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.