Video games Quote by Stephen King

Americans love to read about violence.

— Anonymous

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to…

— Bob Herbert

Same old boring boring story America can’t stop telling itself. What is this sicko fascination? Every book and movie practically has to have a…

— Francesca Lia Block

For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me.…

— Javier Camara

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

— Katherine Dunn

America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.

— Neil Macdonald

“In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.”

— Bryant McGill

“[American Psycho] is ”throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless…

— Andrew Motion

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

— Don DeLillo

This is certainly not to excuse the violence that exists on TV and films and on the Internet. But the truth is that wherever…

— Irwin Winkler

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual…

— Mark Millar

There's something very truthful about American brutality, spirit and myth-making that is so present in the great westerns.

— Fred Hechinger