I don't think you should hurt or kill animals just to entertain an audience. Animals should have some rights. But there are a lot of directors, including Ingmar Bergman, who will injure animals to further a plot. I will have none of it.

It's a tradition that continues, and yet we have opposition from groups that think that animals should have equal rights to human beings, and that's probably the biggest threat we have. Other than that, I think there is general acceptance that we need to have wildlife, we need to have outdoor recreation of all kinds.

What if this animal had a disease? What if it got loose and hurt someone? We can't allow exotic animals to live with people like this.

They definitely have a perpetuity to hurt people if they enjoy watching animals being ripped apart and mutilated then there's something wrong with these boys, they need to be taken off the street.

I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

Right now, animals are generally considered property. Animals do not have rights in the sense that humans have rights.