"You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama."
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"I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything."
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"When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that you have somewhere to go. That also applies to levels of violence, levels of humor, levels of production value."
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"If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling."
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"Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment."
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"Violence is not more efficient than non-violence."
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"I like comedy, not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. But comedy is what I like."
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"Unfortunately part of pulp is that there is sex, there is violence. It's not a kids' show. It's an 18-and-over audience - like anything cable. I see some things in Game of Thrones that turn my hair gray. It's the way the industry has gone."
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"I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons."
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"What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever."
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"The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about."
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"Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact."
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"But think of the violence, it could happen to your kids."
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"All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence."
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"I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films."
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"Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain."
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"The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly."
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"You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence."
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"He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master."
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"It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now."
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