Eli Roth Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.

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

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

I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.

There's not a lot of music videos that are totally, totally disturbing.

I am very, very anti-slasher.

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

When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'

People used to see things that disgusted them and say, 'I never want to see that again.' Now we've reached the point where we see things that are disturbing and revolting to us, but we want to see more and more of it.

I couldn't believe that people went to see 'Saw,' that people actually lined up.

Fast cutting, loud music, blood spewing everywhere, and gunshots permeating the scenes does not necessarily make for a shocking movie.

In 'Bodies,' we had a lot of gore because it was a medical drama. The gore was authentic.

Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

More blood! More blood!

The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.

I love splashing the blood around.

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.

As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.

When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.