Philip Winchester Quotes

Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.

Perhaps there is such a thing as obscene sex, but I know that violence is always obscene. So I don't get it, that you can disembowel a woman but you can't see her tits. Who made that up? That's sick!

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

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.

I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.

You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.

I'm not talking so much about sex - after you've seen sex in a picture, what else can happen - but violence is very bad. People think these are things you are allowed to do. I think they should be forbidden.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.

I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

We have pleaded to the entertainment industry to raise their standards and protect our children.

Don’t listen to music that is degrading.