Park Chan-wook Quotes

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.

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

So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

I think people are getting more and more - unfortunately - inured to violence. People are like, less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

Anyone who commits an act of violence to themselves or others is worth consideration in the sense that there must be something that brought them to that point, whether it's a mental health issue or otherwise.

Certain people are more likely to use drugs because of whatever it is: They've suffered some trauma in their life. They have risk factors like mental illness, people with learning disabilities, with attention problems.

Violent behavior predicts violent behavior. Obviously not every domestic abuser will become a terrorist. If somebody is prone to violence, and also has radical beliefs, and also feels very slighted, that's when you have the combination.

There are a lot of challenges we are facing, like how you are supposed to react to emotional stress.

If we didn't desensitize ourselves in some way, every day would feel like its own tragedy.

At home, my personal life was regularly falling apart, and from childhood on, I had a lot of chaos. I was addicted to chaos; I was addicted to self-harm, and I had to seek help at the hospital.

I think we have too much violence in wrestling, on TV in general, and society as a whole.

I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.

When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of death in the US.