Content Sensitivity Quotes

What I play on screen doesn't bother me.

With scripts I've always looked at them and thought about kids, you know? Thought about the world and the impact... I won't do nudity and I never felt comfortable with that whole idea or things with huge sexual content - not my thing.

I see my job as trying to entertain you, to be balanced in some way, and morally responsible. I don't want to glorify a killer. I don't want to glorify a rapist. I don't want to do those things, but on the other hand I don't want to lecture to you, either.

I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.

I have had viewers that come up to me, and they're, like, "You know, we used to watch ('Breaking Bad') as a family, and once the melted body came falling through the ceiling, my mom was just, like, 'I can't watch this show anymore. This is just way too disturbing for me.' So it's not for everybody.

Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.

There are some people who shouldn't watch horror films, and I'm all right with that.

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

I have three kids. Now they're all grown up, but when they were little, every time I would start a new project, they would say, 'So dad, are you making a movie we can watch or one we cannot watch?' That's the kind of stuff they would ask. People around me - family and friends - usually know when to watch and when not to watch.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

I don't really see why some of those topical lines have to be crossed to get a point across. I want a mother and daughter, a teenage girl and her mom, to be able to come to the show and both enjoy it on the same level.

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.