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If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect their chances to achieve the goals they've set.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.