We made The Who look like church boys on Sunday. We done things only fools'd do.
Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off three cars and burned down a funeral home. Maybe that's some kind of record.
Criticism is different from violence and damaging public properties.
I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.
I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.
If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!
When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.
Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble.
Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.
