Cornel Wilde Quotes

Most screen violence is tedious.

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

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.

For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.

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

Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything.

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

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

Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.

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

The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.

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

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

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

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.

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

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

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

A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.

I remember watching 'Fargo.' I thought that was cruel. 'GoodFellas,' lots of Scorsese stuff, I think is unnecessarily violent and almost a celebration of violence. I don't see 'Game of Thrones' as being a celebratory violence.

'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, depending on your point of view - in its excessiveness, in its extremities.

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

Visaranai' isn't for those with weak hearts. It has a lot of graphic violence, and you need a strong stomach to watch the film.

I'm not keen on films which depict a lot of violence.