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William H. Macy says extreme violence in film offends him: 'You kill 18 people, it's just porn'

William H. Macy tells Brett Goldstein that extreme violence in films rings untrue and that films that don't feel true offend him: "Hollywood is doing a lot of damage."

And I guess the most obvious example — and I can see the will to live just fade from people when I get on this kick — but I think Hollywood is doing a lot of damage to the world with our portrayal of violence. Macy said a Western he's writing — which he plans to star in alongside his daughter Sophia, whom he shares with Felicity Huffman — required some scaling back on the casualties. Well, if you live in Aspen, it wasn't a joke — a lot of people with the cowboy hats and the fringe and everything."

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