Film Classification Quotes

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

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

I don't think it's right to define films as commercial or art house. What's important is that a film evokes a certain emotion when it's being watched.

It really upsets me that the media insists on turning 'Do the Right Thing' or 'Boyz N the Hood' into 'black films.' They are American films. They may open the window on the black experience, but they had things to say to everybody. That's why they were so successful.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

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.

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

The Witch' was intended to be a horror movie.

In deciding the ratings of the films, no consideration is given to artistic, technical or dramatic values. Only moral content is weighed.

Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.

2019 is proving to be a golden year of Malayalam cinema... As an actor, I have always classified films as either good ones or bad ones... I had five films that released this year in the cinemas and our audiences liked every one of them.

People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it as a musical.

I have no issue with the CBFC.

My children can't see many of the films that I've been in because I'm always either dying or taking my clothes off.

I think there are just bad films and good films. Period.

'Black cinema' I don't even know what that means. It's just cinema. When Paul Thomas Anderson makes a movie, we don't just say it's 'white cinema.'

Julie' has not been perceived as a sleazy film, and I am grateful for that.

I think that because most films where there's a teenager, it's aimed at a teenage audience. Restless is - I wouldn't classify it as a teen film, strictly, but it's definitely a film that appeals to young people, but also gives them credit for their complexity.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

There's nothing in [The Other Woman] movie that feels like an R to us.

I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.

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.