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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 inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

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.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.

I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.