Benjamin Percy Quotes

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

I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood.

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

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

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

Most screen violence is tedious.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

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

I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them boring.

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

I love splashing the blood around.

Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it.

I'm always the one who gets killed. And I want it to be really gory. Body parts all over the place. Mangled!

My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.

All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.

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.'

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.

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