Aspect Quote by Anonymous

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

— David Lynch

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.

— Jess C Scott

“I was asked: You write some intimate scenes in your stories on You Me & Stories but they are not explicit. Why so? Have…

— Arti Honrao

I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or…

— John Cameron Mitchell

“The porn films are not about sex. Sex is airbrushed and digitally washed out of the films. There is no acting because none of…

— Chris Hedges

“Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits!”

— Airambooksie

If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really good, useful…

— Miranda July

Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.

— Penelope Gilliatt

Sex offers incredible narrative opportunities and so many emotions are tied up in sex. Also, I mean, the erotic is always a fun creative…

— Roxane Gay

Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances…

— Renata Adler

It's just odd that something as essential in life as sex has been flattened out in mainstream cinema - and in art cinema. Even…

— John Cameron Mitchell