Terry Funk Quotes

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.

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

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.

If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

I actually don't have a view on whether someone watching certain material that may be legal in some places, but might be obscene to somebody else, can trigger a violent streak in someone.

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

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.

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

Our children are being fed a daily dosage of violence …. I know this stuff sells, but that doesn't make it right.

Why on earth does anybody watch that stuff [television violence]?

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.

I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

Some things I see on television, I think, 'Oh my gosh, they're showing that now?' wow.

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

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.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life.

I'm not up for violence, just for fun.

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?