Character Quote by Dean Koontz

Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.

— Eli Roth

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…

— Scott Adkins

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm…

— Naomi Watts

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

— Stanley Kubrick

I worked on movies with a lot of violence when I was a cinematographer, and it always bothered me. It's a personal thing. I…

— Jan de Bont

You must understand that violence in a movie is only a tool. If it's used badly, it will be horrible. If it's used correctly,…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and…

— Jacques Audiard

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in…

— John Woo

One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the…

— Taylor Sheridan

Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.

— John Hillcoat

I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature,…

— Niels Arden Oplev

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case…

— Joel Coen