Screen Violence Quotes

I think one year I was responsible for 163 screen deaths. That was a pretty good year for me, although it seems better than it actually was at a glance; 72 of those deaths were accounted for in one show.

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

We see death constantly on film.

I think it would be impossible to make a movie about video games if there wasn't some violence that we know from video games.

I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.

I don't believe terror and horror are just vicarious pleasures. I think it routes itself in your mind. It can affect your mind. Look at what's going on in the America today. The violence is just awful and I think a lot of has to do with what they are showing on the movies and television.

Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star.

I think TV remotes should have a button that allows you to kill the person on the screen.

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

Most screen violence is tedious.

I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.