While at the Locarno Film Festival this past weekend, actor Harvey Keitel spoke with festival goers who were eager to find out what has drawn him to play so many iconic violent roles throughout his career. In response to the questions, Keitel explained, "Violence is a real thing and true violence is horrible and hurtful and destructive. Any art discipline that shows violence for commercial reasons is wrong. But we have to know violence, we have to know danger, because it exists.