Neil Marshall Quotes

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

What's the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids' heads? Taking someone else's girl, which is so laissez-faire in hip-hop, will get you killed in the streets, but it doesn't seem to be an issue when you hear it on the radio.

Sex is a slotmachine.

Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed.

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something you should fight? No. Sex is very natural.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.

I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.

There's no sex in Middle Earth.

I'm not a sex symbol.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

I don't mind nudity; I just don't do it often.

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

I am not a sex symbol.