Edward Zwick Quotes

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

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 - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.

Soap operas have become sex operas.

His conversations were very vivid. He spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes. He talked about pornographic materials depicting individuals with large penises or large breasts involved in various sex acts. On several occasions, Thomas told me graphically of his own sexual prowess.

I don't ever want to be gratuitous, for the sake of being gratuitous, but when it serves the stories and the characters, it's nice to be able to do that, realistically and with credibility. You don't want to do it for the sake of it, or shoe-horn it in. But, it's a good tool to have in the toolbox.

It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content.

My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

If it doesn't have sex scenes in it, I won't do it.

I would never do a role where I'm naked in bed with a chick having sex.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that.

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.