Kate Bernheimer Quotes

I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

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.

I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.

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

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

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

I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

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.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.

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

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

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

The original 'RoboCop' was X-rated, and then they had to cut it down so it became R-rated, and Verhoeven claimed that actually made the movie more violent, because it's what you don't see that actually scares you.

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.

Most screen violence is tedious.

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

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.

The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable.

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart.

I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.