Believe Quote by Spike Lee

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down…

— Guillermo del Toro

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

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

People say that my movies are violent. I do not think so.

— Takashi Miike

There's been nothing proven that violence in video games has an impact. As a parent though, and I'm a parent for a 20-year-old, for…

— Reggie Fils-Aime

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

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

Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny -…

— Richard Posner

A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial…

— Madeleine Stowe

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is…

— Jake Lloyd

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will…

— Xavier Dolan

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his…

— Quentin Tarantino