If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.
I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can't really do it. It's unnecessary.
The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.
I grew up as a boy with aggression.
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.
Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?
What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.
I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
Who is Savion Glover? Who is that guy? Good question. I'm a lot of things... Intense... Focused.
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.