It's very difficult to predict what proportion of an audience is actually going to go out and commit a crime as the result of having watched a violent film, despite our research. RB - Lots of children have TVs and videos in their rooms these days. Social conditions have changed. We have to take account of that accidental viewing. We obviously can't take this to ludicrous extremes, but viewing conditions play an important role in our decisions on video.
Video is also different in that it is infinitely replayable.
It is amazing the number of people who are obsessive about certain scenes on video and play them over and over. You really have to think about the effects of that. He was so impressed by that piece of evidence he rejected the film. 25 years on, kids are more sophisticated in media terms. They've seen a lot more than I would have seen at their age, and are more robust in the way they view that kind of material.