Howard Suber: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Self - Host : Now, everybody knows there's a lot of violence in popular films. Everybody knows that villains have a tendency to kill people. Well, so do heroes. So, if they both kill people, what's the difference between the hero and the villain? Well, the villain kills for his own personal pleasure, his own self-aggrandizement, because killing gives him power over other people, maybe the power of the person he killed. The hero kills people on behalf of society. The hero may kill people, but in the role of an executioner. It's not the personal self-satisfaction that leads the hero to kill somebody. A hero doesn't get anything except the satisfaction of knowing he did something for a higher purpose than just killing people for your own benefit.