Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world.
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
I'm not selling sex. I'm selling underwear and jeans, and I'm not trying to do it with pornography.
Is there something to be said for the writings of the Marquis? Is there something to be said for pornography? And is there something to be said against both? I hope our film is balanced and rich enough to encourage debate and discussion.
While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.
Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are.
I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it, garbage in, garbage out.
I think pornography is a scourge on society.