Explicit Material Quotes

Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [hard-core pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it

I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.

I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that I would go and read.

It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

It's pornography for me only when it involves violence or children.

I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.

If you're going to be an R already, you may as well be 'The Hangover,' and you may as well be as shocking as possible, because that's what delivers the most return.

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

there is no pornography without a secrecy.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.

To me pornography is...spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons.

It's like letting little children watch the sex act.

If it doesn't have sex scenes in it, I won't do it.

Pornography supplies the only really safe sex.

I don't watch penalties in my hotel room. I watch naughty videos

Will there be titty? Sure. Boom! I'm a producer. Where you been all our life, boy? We been lookin for you in Hollywood.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.