Children Quote by Philip Kaufman

I worked on movies with a lot of violence when I was a cinematographer, and it always bothered me. It's a personal thing. I…

— Jan de Bont

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

— Morgan Saylor

The violence and sexuality on TV today is exhilarating. You can explore every aspect of society. People's sexual orientations, the violence that goes within…

— Pierce Brosnan

It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the…

— Molly Ivins

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down…

— Guillermo del Toro

What bothers me is that the cinema - what Fox News calls the "wholesome cinema that our children are supposed to be able to…

— Tilda Swinton

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'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good…

— Spike Lee

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

Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Park Chan-wook

The problem for me, with most movies for children, is that the filmmakers make the mistake of making it too simplistic. Where a child's…

— Niki Caro