Shock Value 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.

When I was in advertising we used naked women to pull them in. Now I use swastikas and uniforms.

When I was in advertising we used to pull them in with naked women. Now I do it with swastikas and uniforms.

Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.

People know I'll be sensational, not scandalous. There's a fine-line difference. Sensational means titillating the viewer. Scandalous means being condemned by the viewer for making unfair, uncouth revelations.

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

I've said things on Twitter that I've said deliberately because I think they're out of order, I think that's the sense of humour that I've got. I like saying things that I think are terrible, because it gives me a buzz.

I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.

We need horror stories for people to focus on.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

I think some journalists and bloggers want their articles to be clever, and the way into that is by writing nasty things. I think our culture likes to be mean. I don't just find this in fashion - I find it in the news. More and more, it is about ripping people apart.

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

I'm uncertain, with horror fans, when is disturbing just disturbing, and when is it fun disturbing?

I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

Negativity sells.

Well, what did I expect? S&M didn't stand for soft and mushy?

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

I have a very high tolerance for gore and blood. I am, like, the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen.

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

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.