In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
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Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand.
From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.
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.
Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.
Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldn't have to take it out of stories.
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.
Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.
It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.
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.
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