Also Quote by Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

— Anna Biller

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

— Kathryn Bigelow

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

— Vincent Cassel

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us…

— Pauline Kael

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in…

— Carl Jung

Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence…

— Andrew Dominik

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

— Nick Cave

“All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.”

— Susana Fortes

Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.

— John Hillcoat

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

— Park Chan-wook

“I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love,…

— David Thomson

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's…

— Kim Hunter