“I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.” WorldIdeasFilmWonderEdgesIntenseHopefullyCinemaShockLove Films Author:Julia Leigh
“In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.” CharacterFilmValuesDevelopmentHorrorConnectionsShiningFavorsGenreShockCharacter DevelopmentShock Value Author:Joshua Leonard
“What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?” I CanFilmHoursCasesHonestlyShockPondering Author:Ray William Johnson
“The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.” PeopleHas BeensMadeStillsReasonStoriesFilmGivenClassSuccessfulWrittenIndustryEnglandWake UpVarietyShockWorking ClassFilm IndustrySuccessful Work Author:Stephen Daldry
“I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give him an expression of shock, so he poured scalding hot water on my arm during the take. He splashed it on me. He got his expression of shock, but I also got, like, second-degree burns!” GivingWantedRememberFilmWaterCollegeExpressionArmsDirectorsDegreesHotShockHot Water Author:John Kapelos
“Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of Scum. All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.” PeopleFilmFacesSummerMarriedMadCinemaShockSquaresHoneymoonBillboardsScumPremieresLeicester Author:Ray Winstone
“It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingDoneFilmCan DoComedyExpectationsBunchShockUnexpectedShockedYou Can Do ItUnderdog Author:Jonah Hill