Shock Value Quotes

Shock Value Quote of the day

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I've been on shows that go for shock value

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.

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

I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.

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

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.

I'm a big fan of shock value humour and I find myself being most comfortable when I make other people uncomfortable. Is that sick of me? I really like it.

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

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

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

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?