Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

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.

Sex is a slotmachine.

I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

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

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

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.

Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.

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.

As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.

Everything that has to do with sex is somehow... it's the best thing in the world, and it's still the one thing people don't want you to talk about.

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!

He allowed us to choreograph the sex scenes.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.