We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.
I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.
I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.
At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.