Aaron Johnson Quotes

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.

Most screen violence is tedious.

If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.

Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

Some horror movies are just for shock value, so it doesn't really feel scary.

I'm uncertain, with horror fans, when is disturbing just disturbing, and when is it fun disturbing?

I think people were a little premature in writing off violent movies. They're going to continue being made, and audiences will continue going to see them.

It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.

When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

Kiefer Sutherland is a crazy jerk on '24,' but you love him because he gets the job done. And I think that that goes for a lot of action stars, I mean Steven Segal is a jerk, but you want to watch him because, eventually, he's a jerk who can beat up bad people.

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

I found out I really love brutal fight scenes.

In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

A movie like 'The Last House On The Left' would be very hard to do in Europe.