You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
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We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
Americans love to read about violence.
This is certainly not to excuse the violence that exists on TV and films and on the Internet. But the truth is that wherever you go in Europe, there are American films and TV shows that are just as popular as at home. And you don't have that sense of violence in any other place other than America.
Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldn't have to take it out of stories.
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
We need to do something about the culture of violence.
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.