Jeff Lindsay Quotes

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

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?

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.

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

I actually met a cop who worked with street gangs. I wanted to understand what drives someone who deals with very hardened criminals on a daily basis. How do you turn that off when you go home at night?

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 wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

It doesn't worry me what anyone says, except when publicity hurts others.

Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.

In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.

It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.

Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

It's an awful world out there. You've got to make people happy.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded

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

When I was a kid, I saw 'Rambo First Blood', and the next day, I took knives to school and threw them at everybody. So I was definitely influenced by violent films before 'Drive.'

Blood must not have blood... I don't stand for anyone bullying bullies.

We have to stop thinking of criminals as 'them' and admit to ourselves, 'There but for the grace of God go I.'