Disturbing Content Quotes

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

I'm uncertain, with horror fans, when is disturbing just disturbing, and when is it fun disturbing?

It's not like I particularly have an interest in creepiness for creepy's sake.

Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.

There are some things you can't unsee, and there are some movies you can't get off IMDB no matter how hard you try.

Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

I'm not squeamish.

[I remember going] to a hotel gym at six o'clock in the morning, and the television was on, and it's some drama in which two men have clearly kidnapped a woman. They're interrogating her, and they put a plastic bag over her head. They're suffocating her, and I'm thinking, It's six o'clock in the morning! Why does anybody need to see this? How can I find the off switch?

There's not a lot of music videos that are totally, totally disturbing.

Every time you turn on the TV, you see some kind of heartbreaking story.

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.

When I read 'Meadowland,' I could see the potential for a very internal, quiet story that could be powerful and emotional but also disturbing and dark.

I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.

I have had viewers that come up to me, and they're, like, "You know, we used to watch ('Breaking Bad') as a family, and once the melted body came falling through the ceiling, my mom was just, like, 'I can't watch this show anymore. This is just way too disturbing for me.' So it's not for everybody.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.

Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life.

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.

People love that monkey torture.

It's not terrifying to watch 'Mindhunter,' necessarily, but it's just unsettling. You can find Aileen Wuornos just talking to a camera. It's hard to watch. Her eyeballs, they are just terrifying.

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.