“There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.” LooksDifferentWarHandsSchoolEarthPastPoliticalCultureEasyWealthViolenceTelevisionBuildingHorrorPrejudicePressesPrisonLiarsContinuingMurdererDiscouragedObservingOutrageousPolitical PowerPoisoningGood Earth Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
“At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.” RealFactsFacesUsedOrderPleasureAcceptingViolenceHorrorDirectorsUglySensualMovieSensual Pleasure Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?” WorldDoeCountryAmericaAsksUnited StatesDemocracyViolenceMysteryMetsHorrorGunViolentShootingShockOther Countries Author:Patricia Cornwell
“As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump. But what I don't like is the gore. I don't like gratuitous violence and killing and all that kind of stuff. So it's kind of an interesting paradox.” KindMeanStuffInterestingWatchesViolenceHonestHorrorAdultsKillingMy FavoriteEdgesBeing HonestSeatsParadoxThrillGoreThrillers Author:Corey Feldman
“I loved horror movies, and I loved movies like that - stuff with an anarchy to them, with chaos. Stuff that glorified violence and whatnot. It's not as entertaining now. It effects me now in a way that it didn't then.” WayStuffViolenceEffectsHorrorChaosAnarchyEntertaining Author:Ken Marino
“I don't think there is anything wrong with watching violence but I just think you have to present it in the appropriate light. I was like just watch how many accidents and deaths horror causes. Whereas I don't think anybody is going to go: "Oh, I just saw The Shining and I think I'm going to go axe somebody!" These movies aren't for everybody. The dark side of anything isn't for everybody. I think that you have to have some sort of responsibility in how you portray it because I always want the violence to seem real and if it seems disgusting then good, because it should.” IfsThinkingWantShouldRealLightSeemsCausesSidesDarkResponsibilityWatchesSawsViolenceHorrorShiningAccidentsAppropriateDisgustingDark Side Author:Rob Zombie
“When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence. I want nudity. I want sex and violence mixed together. What's wrong with that? Am I the only one? I don't think so.” ThinkingWantTogetherSexViolenceHorrorNudity Author:Eli Roth
“It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.” PeopleWarMatterPoliticalImaginationCitiesViolenceCrimeHorrorBattleWeaponsDestructionDistanceSoldierHeavyCommitAcknowledgeHeatBombsVillageEngagementSteadyOccasionalMissilesCoalitionsSavageryBarbaricWar CrimesArtilleryAmerican WarRules Of Engagement Author:James Carroll
“I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.” ThinkingWellsChildrenSoulFilmViolenceHorrorMy SoulHorror FilmActs Of Violence Author:Kate Winslet
“The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.” AcceptingPrinciplesFocusViolenceGroupsMilitaryCrimeHorrorNewsInternationalCommittedSupremeGood NewsSurveysInvadersFocus GroupsNurembergNuremberg Trials Author:Noam Chomsky
“In TV and film, a little goes a long way. I see the show as horror so a lot of the [violence] is suggested. But it is violent. It is gory. I don't see any need to up the gore. Just to keep it as real and visceral as possible.” WayNeedsLittlesLongRealShowsFilmViolenceTvsHorrorViolentLong WayGoreVisceral Author:Glen Mazzara
“Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.” DoeDoneViolenceHigherCivilizationHorrorVictimAcceptedInvisibleDefinedShockHierarchyUnthinkableUnnoticed Author:Derrick Jensen
“I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in and out for sex and hard labor under the threat of violence and death breaks my heart.” YearsHeartChildrenHardUsedSexBreakViolenceMy HeartHorrorLaborThreatRippedFathomBreaking My Heart Author:Gillian Anderson
“It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.” IfsHas BeensStoriesViolenceImpossibleDogHorrorHorseValleysCould Have BeenHorror Stories Author:Ti West
“With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.” ForceViolenceHorrorDrivingFilmmakerPlotValleysDriving ForceSubtext Author:Ti West
“[Albert Camus]didn't have much hope that things would work out, but he wanted them to. Algeria had reached such a degree of violence that once such violence is created there's no more room for reflection. And there's no mediating position. If you look at Bosnia today, the Croats, Bosnians and Serbs, they've all created so much horror that one starts to wonder how these peoples can live together, after having done what they have. Already the violence has reached such a degree that everybody is living in hate, there's no possibility of reflection, no mediating position.” IfsLooksDoneTodayWantedTogetherHateRoomsWonderViolencePossibilityPositionHorrorDegreesReflectionWork OutBosniaAlgeriaBosniansCroats Author:Catherine Camus
“I don't believe terror and horror are just vicarious pleasures. I think it routes itself in your mind. It can affect your mind. Look at what's going on in the America today. The violence is just awful and I think a lot of has to do with what they are showing on the movies and television.” ThinkingMindBelieveLooksTodayAmericaPleasureViolenceTelevisionHorrorDon't BelieveTerrorAwfulRoutesAmerica TodayVicarious Author:Richard Matheson
“In The Shining, you love Shelley Duvall. You love Jack Nicholson. You're let into the intimacy of that violence and it's emotional and it's physical. We're let in very close. So I think a good horror film has to pull you in very deeply inside. Halloween is a good horror film because we love Jamie Lee Curtis, we're brought very deeply in right when she's babysitting the kids. She's going from house to house, all those houses have windows that you can look in. We're a very vulnerable and exposed audience.” ThinkingKidsFilmHouseAudienceViolenceEmotionalHorrorWindowShiningVulnerableIntimacyHalloweenVery DeepHorror FilmNicholsonShelleyBabysitting Author:Kimberly Peirce
“The idea for me is that if the movie connects with you the way I want it to connect with you, you should be experiencing both the horror and the wonder as a child would. From a child's point of view. When we're kids, brutality registers differently than when we are adults. Because as adults, we get too used to violence.” ChildrenKidsWonderViolenceHorrorPoint Of View Author:Guillermo del Toro