Comedy Quote by Roger Ebert

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

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films…

— Norman Jewison

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

— David Cronenberg

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

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant…

— Peter Bart

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

— David Mamet

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

— Nicolas Cage

Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make…

— Dana Brunetti

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

— Philip Kaufman

...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a…

— Anita Loos

People can try to minimize what comes out of Hollywood and say, 'Oh, it's just entertainment,' but it has a tremendous effect on the…

— John MacArthur