Violence Context Quotes

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West.

We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.