Connected Quote by John Cameron Mitchell

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

In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses…

— Charlton Heston

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

— Morgan Saylor

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

— Penelope Gilliatt

There's a lot of ridiculous hypocrisy about sex in films today. And that's one of the reasons why I made 9 Songs, to say,…

— Michael Winterbottom

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

— Ben Hecht

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap…

— Anonymous

The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us.

— Anonymous

I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen…

— Declan Lynch

I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality.…

— Myrna Loy

Most sex scenes in Hollywood movies are so boring. It's basically a $20 million guy kissing a $7 million woman, and rolling around and semi-humping.

— James Schamus

People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her sexuality onscreen,…

— Maria Bello