Film Quote by Morgan Saylor

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's…

— Kim Hunter

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there…

— Angelina Jolie

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

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

— Park Chan-wook

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

— Philip Kaufman

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

— David Cronenberg

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

Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people…

— Morgan Saylor

I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream media, period,…

— Desiree Akhavan

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us…

— Pauline Kael

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

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie…

— Ang Lee