Tim Robbins

I had a concept of it.

But then actually to be in them, you get a...

a larger understanding of that.

So when I broke through, when I became famous and didn't have to audition anymore, I would get scripts, right, sent to me.

After Bull Durham came out.

So I saw all the scripts, right, that were going forward.

And an awful lot of them had content that made me uncomfortable.

And I would consider in retrospect, I wouldn't have identified it as propaganda then, but I would, in retrospect, identify it as propaganda now.

Movies that had this kind of vigilante idea of justice or this idea that violence is somehow entertainment.

Like, you know, where there's just a lot of death.

Like, you know, remember those movies where

like Rambo.

I remember going to one of those movies and going, let's do a little counter here.

Let's count how many deaths we see here.

And one explosion takes, well, that's about 20.

And adding up the amount of death you've consumed

in a two hour period.

And something about that, I think it must, I don't know what it is, but something about that really disturbed me, the idea that people are enjoying watching people murdered.

That's weird.

And it was all too prevalent.