Quotes About Impact

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.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.

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

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

Violence is not funny.

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

I think it's very easy to disgust the reader with violence on the page - that's incredibly easy - but it's far harder to make a reader care about a character.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.