There Are Times When I Think I

I Think There's A Certain Numbness In Modern Society, That Accepts Certain Kinds Of Violence, But Represses Other Kinds Of Violence.

Musicians Are At The Bottom Of The Creative Pyramid And Authors Are At The Top, And Many People Think It's Unacceptable For Someone To Attempt To Jump From The Bottom To The Top Of The Pyramid.

The Reason I've Gotten Into Script-writing, Which Was Accidental To Begin With, Was That I Found It Was A Far More Effective Medium For Violence. Which Is Something That I'd Always Written In Songs, But The Violence Always Sat Strangely Within A Song. And I Was Always Interested In The Way In Which You Listen To Murder Ballads And Things Like That - These Weird Lines Would Kind Of Come Out, Like, I Drug Her By The Hair Or Something - That Sat Weirdly In The Song. Film Seems To Be A Medium Designed For Betrayal And Violence.

I Have To Be Able To See The Thing That's Going On That I'm Writing About, Or Else It Just Doesn't Make Any Sense To Me.

Guns Are Part Of The American Psyche, Aren't They? This Is Collateral Damage For Having A Wild West Mentality. It's Intrinsic To The American Psyche. It's Never Going To Change.