"Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down."
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"It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome."
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"It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general."
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"With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker."
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"Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were."
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"There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence."
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"One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate."
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"I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others."
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"Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children."
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"Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration."
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"Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love."
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"It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments."
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"Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful."
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"I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry."
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"If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it."
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"Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything."
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"I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine."
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"An unjust law in itself is an act of violence."
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"If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world."
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"A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence."
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