Quotes About Entertainment

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.

I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

I'm a bit of a wuss. I'll even watch, like, a Tom Cruise 'Jack Reacher' movie where, I mean, there's a lot of action, but the violence is no real violence, but I still hide my face because there might be violence.

I am urging Americans to be more careful about the kinds of media we support with our consumer spending. We've got to invest less in the media that glorifies violence and more in entertainment that lifts up the values of love, compassion, and the best in human nature.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd be perfect.

I'm not keen on films which depict a lot of violence.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

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

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.