Accepting Quote by Pauline Kael

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence…

— James Purefoy

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 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

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

It's strange the way people hear and see things. Like going to films - —violent films. To me, seeing violence in a film makes…

— Jim Capaldi

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there…

— Angelina Jolie

We see so much violence in films, whether it is Bollywood or south films. People are shown blowing up each other onscreen. It's like…

— Victor Banerjee

Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on…

— Steven Spielberg

I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has…

— Karyn Kusama

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

— Park Chan-wook

I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do…

— Sophia Loren

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