Dee Rees Quotes

Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

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

Violence is a American as cherry pie.

Violence is a commodity in the U. S. and the culture of violence is toxic.

I wonder why he shot me?.

I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.

I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.

I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun.

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.