“I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwoStoriesBeautifulHateSidesViolenceChicagoRespecting OthersTwo SidesLove HateBeautiful Love Author:Chance the Rapper
“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.” PeopleThinkingHumansImportantStoriesSidesDarkFireViolenceFashionHuman NatureSittingTraditionDietsCynicismBrutalityDark SideSitting AroundStaples Author:Eric Stoltz
“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.” IfsThinkingMindMeanIdeasDifferentStoriesMovingGamesLevelsViolenceFineSceneSakeMake SenseDifferent ThingsMechanicDifferent Levels Author:David Cage
“Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.” GivingWellsFactsStoriesSeemsActionFilmStuffForgetViolenceCarCoupleSceneEssentialsHollywoodGive MeStructureShootingBroadsFadsAction Films Author:Clint Eastwood
“Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.” StoriesTurnsViolenceDoctorsViolentSicknessScareHelplessness Author:Warren Zevon
“In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.” IfsBookEndsCharacterStoriesProblemLiteratureViolenceSolutionsExtremesDrivenReasonableSolution To A ProblemLead Characters Author:Dean Koontz
“If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.” IfsThinkingWantWellsEndsStoriesSeemsSexViolenceTvsLike YouGrandmotherAfternoonOperaSoapCablesSoap OperasCinematographyYour Grandmother Author:William Monahan
“There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.” WritingChildrenBookDifferentStoriesCareCoursesSexDifferencesAttentionViolenceReaderAdultsExtremes Author:Michael Scott
“As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.” PeopleKnowsStoriesLostPsychologyViolenceBrokenOfficePicksSticksProfessionPocketsAttachmentDisorderDeniedLost LoveBetrayedTwistedPsychiatryTherapistsPsychotherapySpillingBetrayed Love Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses
“History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.” KindStoriesSawsViolenceGunGainsWorking ItKind Words Author:James Carlos Blake