As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive.
I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.