The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
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Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it.
Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.
We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.
The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.
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