Sasha Grey Quotes

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

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.

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

My works tends to be erotic.

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if only for a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again.

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.

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.

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

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.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

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!

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.

Soap operas have become sex operas.

I had never done anything like I had done in 'Masters of Sex.' Those are some very adventurous scenes.

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

The one thing I'm terrified of trying to write about is sex. I mean my God, my wife might read it or my daughter might read it or my son might read it, so no, I've never really written about eroticism at all.

I can feel your body pressed against my body. When you start to poundin', love to feel you throbbin'.

Snap. Lady with dog. Lady on sofa half-naked. Snap. Naked lady. Lady next to dresser. Lady at window. Snap. Lady on balcony sunlight. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.