Nick Cave Quotes

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.

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.

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

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

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

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

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

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

The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.

I do find violence entertaining, but that doesn't make me a bad person. I grew up watching all these action films when I was a kid. My dad would bring back 'Rambo' and whatever, and we'd watch it together. It's not affected me in any way other than I just appreciate the entertainment value of violence on film.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

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

The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.

There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious and violent video games.

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

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

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

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.

I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.