Gerald Peary, « Gus Van Sant - Elephant », sur Gerald Peary, (consulté le ) : « If you obsessively do anything, like playing solitaire for solid weeks, that might influence your behavior, make you anti-social. If you play Doom, you are meeting people on the Internet, you dodge bullets, shoot them. The person you just shot might be a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota. If you do that for a long time, you start to fantasize. You might say, 'Let's get back at people we don't like.' In Elephant, one of the killers is briefly playing a video game. We couldn't get rights to Doom so we designed one ourselves that resembles Gerry, with two guys walking in a desert. »
Todd McCarthy, « Review: ‘Elephant’ », sur Variety, (consulté le ) : « And while it is clearly not Van Sant’s intent to offer a facile explanation for why two teenage boys marched into their high school with assault weapons with the aim of picking off as many of their fellow students as possible, he does so when he reveals the killers to be gay-inclined Nazis! »
