Jeremy Podeswa Quotes

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

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.

I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

It's repugnant to me personally and a sizeable segment of Virginians.

Human beings are gross.

I'd like to create a character that is completely appalling, that it would make the audience tremble.

If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

There are different types of experiences, and all of them are valid, and all of them deserve to be portrayed in a real way.

I mean, I want my live show to be like a Marilyn Manson show, where it's gruesome and dark, but I want the music to be straight-up pop.

What's an easier way to say 'bad?' Let's go with 'abysmal.'

Our music would probably be a really dark ocean, so you may not know where you are. It's not so literal. It's like a David Lynch movie.

'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.

The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.

My films typically veer towards the darker side, and I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really enjoy working in genre because people come into the film with certain expectations, and they know the tropes so well that when you turn on those, it can be really shocking. There's a complaisance that comes with watching those films.

I tend to be attracted to material that has a tough edge to it - darker material.

I can't speak to what makes people think that I'm scary.

I'm here to be the guy that rubs people the wrong way sometimes.

I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.

For me, it's very important that shows about gay people are messy and complicated and are truthful about what we do.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.