Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.

'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

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