Mark Gatiss Quotes

I have a very high tolerance for gore and blood. I am, like, the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

It is so hard nowadays to find a movie that I like. I don't mind blood and gore. But I mind when its a slasher film, and its some guy looking for women. I am opposed to that kind of thing. Blood and gore? I love that kind of thing.

I do watch a lot of horror movies, so not a lot of things scare me anymore.

I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.

I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.

I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

I'm not necessarily a horror fan. I just never really watched them that much.

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.

Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it.

A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

The original 'RoboCop' was X-rated, and then they had to cut it down so it became R-rated, and Verhoeven claimed that actually made the movie more violent, because it's what you don't see that actually scares you.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

A movie like 'The Last House On The Left' would be very hard to do in Europe.

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable.

I'm not a blood and guts person. I remember seeing 'House of Wax' as a teenager in 3D. This was years ago, the original 'House of Wax', and that was scary enough for me that I thought I'd never see another one.

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.