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

It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.

It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.

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