Quote by Brené Brown

“How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pretty close. Grotesque melodrama? Certainly. Black comedy? Your point of…

— Richard Matheson

“Take away fatherhood, and you kill womanhood, childhood, brotherhood—the entire neighborhood. Shoot the head, and you’ve killed the whole body.2”

— Terry Law

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

— Nick Cave

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

— Donna Leon

“Show me life as I've learned it:blood and guts,violence and sex.”

— Charlee Jacob

“The cycle of violence needs extreme love to break it.”

— Sarah Macdonald

Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which pain, humiliation…

— Henry Giroux

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

— Natalie Portman

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his…

— Quentin Tarantino

“Please get off me, please, I don't wanna to have something with you" (Well said, by a woman (The Wolf of Wall Street) ),…

— Deyth Banger

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm…

— Naomi Watts

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus.…

— Julie Taymor