“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
“When people see the terrible scenes of violence on television, when we mourn the death of each and every American man and woman in uniform or a civilian that's killed in Iraq, that it's hard to see the progress that's being made and it's hard to believe that this is all going to come out for the better.” PeopleMenBelieveMadeHardProgressViolenceTelevisionTerribleSceneMen And WomenUniformsCiviliansMournHard To Believe Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Me and my friends in high school were the only girls who went to hardcore shows. It was three of us, and the rest of the audience was male. We didn't really think about it. We weren't thinking we were alienated or whatever, but eventually, as there started to be violence in the scene we were in during high school, we started to be turned off by the violence.” ThinkingShowsSchoolGirlThreeAudienceViolenceSceneHigh SchoolMy FriendsMalesHardcoreTurned Off Author:Kathleen Hanna
“In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.” IfsWayAmericaUsedGivenDealsComedyViolenceSceneGunWow Author:Scott Thompson
“I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they're making films where you witness violence in a real way.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayRealPastFilmViolenceProductsSceneWitnessFilmmakerDriversTaxiBack In The DayScorsese Author:Antoine Fuqua
“There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking.” LittlesWholeActionFilmStuffSportsInterestingTalkingViolenceSceneGunBaseballDrawingPitchingBattingTalking Heads Author:Raymond Pettibon
“If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.” IfsFilmSituationViolenceScenePressureThreatBoringGoing To WorkTemperatureNotchesCookers Author:Quentin Tarantino
“There has been a ton of excellent music in this period (along with a few misses), evoking scenes like a bar-room brawl at a border-town dive, a washed-up singer in a smoky lounge, and the scenes of violence in Bob Dylan latter-day music videos.I think the ethos of this period is best summed up in the 2001 song "Summer Days".” ThinkingHas BeensSongRoomsViolenceMissingPeriodsSceneSummerTownsSingersBarsVideoExcellentBordersLatterBobDylanEthosLatter DaysSummer Days Author:Jay Michaelson
“Tommy Nohilly, who plays Tubby [ Valley of Violence], he came down to see the movie for the first time and I was like, "You've got to come just to see people react to your [big scene]." I knew that would go well, but it's satisfying to me when he's sitting there and it actually does.” PeopleFirstsWellsDoePlayBigsViolenceLike YouSceneSittingFirst TimeValleysSatisfying Author:Ti West
“One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.” ViolenceDogSceneSittingMy FavoriteValleysCampfire Author:Ti West
“I think everyone who saw Alfred Hitchcock Psycho movie, as I did when I was young, was impacted. The shower scene is nuts. It still is, and I think what's wonderful about it is that it's universal. People understand the darkness and the violence, and it's shocking.” PeopleThinkingDarknessViolenceWonderfulScenePsycho Author:Sacha Gervasi
“In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of violence or tragedy or titillation or grossness or even sentimentality can move us, but how the written word elicits delight - what Nabokov calls that shiver in the spine - is much harder to calculate and define.” WritingEnoughMovingLyingReadingEasyViolenceMysterySceneTragedyWriting LifeSentimentalityWritten WordShiverReading And Writing Author:Alice McDermott