Quotes About Perception

A lot of people in Islamic countries are taking it as a personal offense when people are talking about the violence against women in their culture.

It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

I know, it's disturbing that gentle looking people have such violence, but I believe we all have a penchant for violence in us.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

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

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

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.

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

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

There's more than one way to sense violence.

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like, total girl crush' unless Total Girl Crush is the name of a fizzy soft drink, in which case I'll take two, thank you.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

The most violent show on TV is the six o'clock news.