Jacques Audiard Quotes

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

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

There's a very heavy burden of proof to be borne by anyone who calls for violence. Maybe it can be sometimes justified. Personally, I'm not a committed pacifist, so I think that, yes, it can sometimes be justified.

Writing 'Deathstroke' presents a number of challenges to me. As a Christian, as a minister, it's difficult for me to write a comic book that all but glorifies violence. So my take on 'Deathstroke' has been to not so much celebrate violence but to deal with the consequences of violence.

There is no one who is more conflicted in the Marvel Universe, in my opinion, than Matthew Murdock. Is he his father's son, or is he the son of his father? Is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems in a court room, or is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems with his fist?

Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.

War only in the ring. Peace on earth

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

I've never really been a fan of violence.

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.