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?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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.
From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.
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.
When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it.
I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That's because I have a broad structure, and if I hit someone, it looks believable. Maybe my contemporaries are meeker-looking in comparison.
When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.