Q: How do you feel about the violence in the Matrix?

Keanu: It’s good fun! It’s just movies. It’s spectacle. I’m not interested in seeing a snuff movie, but a good action picture, pop-corn action, it’s always fun. Also, beyond the spectacle, there are ideas in The Matrix films, which is something I like.

Regarding his movie Matrix Revolutions & asked if he is a pacifist:

"Because revolution is always connoted with violence, I felt that it was interesting when the character comes to the end and asks for peace so it's a new kind of revolution. I feel that anything that's asking for peace or amelioration or any kind of dialogue other than violent ( Read more... )

Do you think violence can ever be a solution?

"I think sometimes it's a very practical solution. I don't think it's the ultimate solution."