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I Think People Go To The Movies To Be Entertained, To Have An Experience, To Disappear From Their Own Reality For A Couple Of Hours. If The Film Truly Succeeds In Everything The Filmmaker Sets Out For It To Be, Then It's Elevated To Art. It's Elevated To Something Special, Because It Gives People A Visceral Feeling Of Something They're Experiencing As A Collective Group. You Feel Something And That's What Turns It Into What You May Call Art.

Even The Westerns That I Grew Up With, The Sergio Leone's And All That, There Was Always A Sort Of Anti-hero, A Guy Reluctant To Shame Even, To Pick Up The Gun Again Because He Wants To Help Other People, And He Does, He Uses His Skills For That.

I Don't Think The Audience Goes And Thinks Of The Movie As A Piece Of Art - There Are Some Independent People Who May Go And Have A Higher Appreciation For Filmmaking. It Is A Great Art Form, But I Don't Think You Look At A Painting And A Movie With The Same Eye.

So It's Hard To Be An Artist And Be True To The Reality Of The World You Want To Create And Also Make It Entertaining And Successful Financially.

The Violence You Witness Is Denzel Doing It And We're Taking Some Visual Effects And Doing Some Things And You See Something Happen It's Happening In Front Of You As Opposed To Cutting Away And Doing A Bunch Of Tricks. It's In Front Of You. So It's Hard Not To Make It A Hard "r" If You See A Guy Get Punched And Teeth Wind Up In Someone's Knuckles.