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I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

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.

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.

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 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.

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

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.