Quotes About Shock Value

#1. I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or gratuitous shock value in place of having a heart. For example: movies that combine extremely sadistic violence with humor I find offensive.

Jesse Michaels

#2. Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.

Timo Tjahjanto

#3. I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

George Carlin

#4. Time had eroded all shock value.

Robert Galbraith

#5. An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

Robert Longo

#6. I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

Chris O'Donnell

#7. Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six months. You don't need to see the same gray suit every season. But surrounding it with 40 really interesting ideas makes it feel new.

Thom Browne

#8. Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

John L'Heureux

#9. My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

Lance Loud

#10. Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

Gloria Steinem

#11. You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

Haylie Duff

#12. Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

Camille Paglia

#13. I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

Amy Schumer

#14. I've been on shows that go for shock value.

Daphne Zuniga

#15. When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.

Sarah Silverman

#16. Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

Ice-T

#17. That's what you strive for - you strive to take your move to the next level. It's about shock value, always shock value, but keeping it flavor and stylized and making it yours.

Crazy Legs

#18. I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.

Jeff Lemire

#19. It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

Beth Ditto

#20. 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.

Joshua Leonard

#21. When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

Roger Scruton

#22. Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

Talib Kweli

#23. Orange is an underrated color, it's the second most underrated color after yellow.

Michel Gondry

#24. As far as being locked into one certain thing, that's not what I want to do. I just want the opportunity to go off and do something else, whether it's plays or musicals or whatever.

Dominic Sherwood

#25. A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someone said the other say. 'Trace, you're going to have to face facts. You and normal parted a lomg, long time ago.

Tracey Emin

#26. If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Brandt Legg

#27. I was risking the chance at a new life on uncertainty, and the only thing that was certain was that if I ever returned, I'd come back to no life at all. I collapsed to the floor. I had made my choice.

Karina Halle

#28. It is a glory and a torment.

Patrick DeWitt

#29. Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#30. The bums were better dressed, younger, but just as listless. They sat around on the window ledges, hunched forward, getting warm in the sun and drinking the free coffee that W.F.I. offered. There was no cream and sugar, but it was free.

Charles Bukowski

#31. My collections are a reflection of my personal style and interests. All the textiles, fabrics and patterns are of my personal choice.

Ashley Purdy

#32. Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

Lars Feld

#33. Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it.

Elliott Erwitt

#34. Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

Joseph Butler

#35. With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.

Nick Nolte

#36. No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad.
-Nastasya

Cate Tiernan