Controversial Films Quotes

The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie.

I think great movies do promote conversation, great movies are honest, and great movies are sometimes polarizing.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

To be honest, I make very controversial films. The films that I've made have been very, very bold choices.

Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

I like films that don't have that unonimity of a response; that don't have consensus in the audience. What it is essentially for me is that if you go back and watch the film a second time, do you feel that you've been played fair with? Are all the clues in place? Indeed, sometimes these things are even overstated. Specifically, for that reason.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

I know I'm regarded as an establishment figure, but I was crucified by the establishment for 'Oh! What a Lovely War', 'Gandhi' and 'Cry Freedom.'

I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.

I don't know a single person that's like, ''Avatar' is my favorite movie.' It never even comes up. I don't know anyone that will defend that movie.

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie.

I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.

Takashi Miike is definitely one of my top five, you know?

Anurag Kashyap is someone whose projects I can take without even hearing the story.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.