Eye Quote by Eli Roth

I feel kind of offended when I watch films, and everything is explained to me - you know, laying out how I should feel…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

My films, I've tried to put a message into them. It's not about the gore; it's not about the horror element that are in…

— George A. Romero

It's not just about looking shocked if the scene demands it. It's about feeling that emotion. You can't lie to the camera, because it…

— Radhika Apte

If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

— Cornel Wilde

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…

— Bobby Farrelly

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic…

— Susan Sontag

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then…

— Ari Aster

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses,…

— Edgar Wright

It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if…

— Fede Alvarez

I feel scenes of sexual intimacy are ruined if the director is embarrassed.

— Aparna Sen

If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and…

— Brad Anderson