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Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.

When you glorify violence, then it comes back to bite you.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

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.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

War is a perversion of sex.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.