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Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.