Jock Sturges Quotes

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.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

I always fought against vulgarity, double meaning dialogues and wearing la'dies' clothes.

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

Well, they had to have me in the G-string because this is PG-13, right?

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

It suggests the red flag with all manner of sexual novelties, and an abusive tone about God and religion.

I wish to join the Legion of Decency, which condemns vile and unwholesome moving pictures. I unite with all who protest against them as a grave menace to youth, to home life, to country and to religion. I condemn absolutely those salacious motion pictures which, with other degrading agencies, are corrupting public morals and promoting a sex mania in our land ... considering those evils, I hereby promised to remain away from all motion pictures except those which do not offend decency and Christian morality.

So long as men are corrupt and revel in sewer filth, entertainers will sell them what they want. Laws may be passed, arrests may be made, lawyers may argue, courts may sentence and jails may harbor men of corrupt minds, but pornography and allied insults to decency will never cease until men have cleansed their minds and cease to require and pay for such vile stuff.

No one today knows what is indecent

Mrs. Cleveland should not wear immoral gowns showing her bare arms and shoulders.

No, no. I draw the line there. Anything that's going to show an outline of my manhood is not on.

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered.

I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

Apropos of the agitation for abolishing the Censor in England, it occurred to me that not even the advocates of freedom seek to justify the free treatment of sexual matters in any other than a high moral-pointing vein. The notion that sexual themes might allowably be treated in the mere aim of amusement does not seem to have occurred to anybody at all.

If we should pass on whether or not a film is pornographic, we should take a look at it.

I say that this is a dirty, filthy book, and the test of it is that no human being would allow that book on his table, no decently educated English husband would allow even his wife to have it…the object of it is to enable a person to have sexual intercourse, and not to have that which in the order of Providence is the natural result of that sexual intercourse. That is the only purpose of the book and all the instruction in the other parts of the book leads up to that proposition.