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

I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature, and obviously it's a troublesome part of human nature. You always have responsibilities when you portray violence in what angle you put down on that scene.

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

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.

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

I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

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.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.