I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
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.
Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it.
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
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.
When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.
It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.