Quote of the Week

Once you accept the idea that the representation of violence is in itself harmful to society, much of the finest world cinema would be banned, from Eisenstein to Kurosawa to Kubrick and Polanski to Coppola and Scorsese. Most genre films would have to go too: film noir, horror, gangster films, Westerns. This form of censorship, taken to its logical conclusion, clearly means the end of art. However, it does have a point, because no matter how moral or ironic or satirical a filmmaker might think a work is, he or she can have no control over how a member of the audience will receive it. No sane person could watch Taxi Driver and decide that it was a good idea to shoot the president -- but an insane person did. And who is to say that your audience will always consist of the sane?
--Mary Harron, director of American Psycho