Jonathan Stroud Quotes

I've put my friends and family through the wringer over the years, I have to say, by doing unspeakable things to people, not the least of which was pulling out poor George Clooney's fingernails in Syriana.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Violence is not funny.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

I don't know what is to be done. This isn't war.

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!

I didn't just screw Ho Chi Minh. I cut his pecker off.

Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression.

Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.

Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.'

Let's not glamorize abuse.

I'm not involved in too many wars, where I'm just constantly getting hit, hit, hit.

Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.

I was fighting men at age 10.

I would say that no one in this world can say that they've never been bullied or have violence against them.