It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
Nothing good ever comes of violence.
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
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.
Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.
People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.
The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.