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To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.

From the time I entered the industry, I have always been clear about certain things - no short clothes, no kissing, no bikinis. Nobody comes to me with such roles. And I have no dearth of work.

It was like fighting with the MPAA... to me it was like this is an R easy... but it was NC 17 over and over and even with this cut they were like, you are right on the edge buddy, one more thing and it's NC-17.

We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.

You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.

In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.

My movies were always clean. There was never anything obnoxious in them that might offend anybody.

In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.

I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.

I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

E! always wanted me to keep it to entertainment news or entertainment and no sports or anything like that, and don't get too weird.

The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.

A 12-year-old can watch 'Spiderman.' A 12-year-old cannot watch 'Watchmen.'

It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.

We take the R-rating on a case by case basis when the story warrants it and necessitate that rating, and shouldn't be hemmed by the rules of PG or PG-13.

There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

I've never pitched a joke that I wouldn't be comfortable seeing in a Pixar film.

I don't think that running a fashion and lifestyle channel like Trendz is against RSS policy. But if it is, then it's up to them to do what they want.

In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.

There are things I'm doing with 'The After' that would've never flown on 'The X-Files' and on network television, so it's more permissive. That's not to say that you want to abuse that. I think that a show like 'The X-Files' actually worked better as a network show with the restraints put on it, the censorship that was applied.

We don't curse at Shots Studios, and we send a very positive message.