Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.
I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.
Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
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.
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.