The individual is no longer crushed or faceless as long as he can get on TV – games show or murder, whats the difference?
” (Pre-release statement, 1994). “The truth that Natural Born Killers elucidates is that the natural born killer is inside all of us. Perhaps it doesn’t manifest itself in a literal sense, as it does with the “civilized” characters in the film (Tommy Lee Jones’ warden, Tom Sizemore’s cop, Robert Downey Jr. ‘s reporter), all of whom do succumb to the murderous impulse, but it does in a figurative sense each time we enable violence by treating its purveyors as celebrities. In the end, if we do so, it is because it has become a time-honored American tradition” (Booklet with 2-Disc R1 US Directors Cut DVD). Oliver Stone: “Tomorrow – tonight – Mickey and Malory Knox can happen, without doubt. And they too would have their hour in the sun – and by the next two issues of TV Guide, would give way to the next predator in the ratings war which become sort of equivalent of the popularity contests we all had to suffer through as kids. The desserts, as I remember, never went to the deserving but to
