Tim Robbins

And it continued and continued and continued to the point where I believe today that's the predominant movie and streaming service kind of thing we see is just a bunch of violence that's uncontrolled.

Now, violence is absolutely important in the storytelling of some stories.

Like, for example, Dead Man Walking.

There's a very violent act that happens, but that's necessary for the drama.

It's not for entertainment.

It seems like a lot of these movies were, you've got to have a death every, you know, ten minutes, or the formula goes to pieces, you know?

It just seemed weirdly exploitative and...

weirdly pornographic to me.

It's just like gratuitous death.

The moral compass comes from having extraordinary parents with a very strong moral code, sense of justice.

My father was a folk singer.

when his group, The Highwaymen, were playing in the South, he refused to perform to segregated audiences.

So in the South, they used to have the separation, and he said, we're not gonna perform unless you integrate this audience.

And so from the very start,

I had a very strong sense of what was going on in the world, what our society was capable of, and also what our society, the traps it can fall into.

And they were both Catholic.

My father was the choir conductor.

He had a chorus, like in Popsi Turvi.

And also, I think,

It was, weirdly, it was also having been a Boy Scout.