sensitive content Quotes

When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that.

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.

It would be the death of all creativity for me if I had to sit there and be concerned with the sensibilities of a fourteen-year-old kid. Some fourteen-year-olds would revel in the book, and some would be very sensitive to it, so you can't afford to worry about that. What I worry about is good taste and getting my message across by whatever means I can.

Whenever there's a nude scene, it's always uneasy. You're not in the comfort of your own home with your significant other.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

We do appreciate that we have a very conservative audience and we do try to walk the fine line of that and not offend anybody.

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

there is no pornography without a secrecy.

For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.

This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.

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.

Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

I feel more pressure when I'm writing for teens. I'm very aware that my audience is impressionable. Therefore, I'm far more careful about what I say and the language I use.

I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.

Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want to talk about those things. It's not that these things don't happen, but when they're shared in a fictional setting, for some reason they make some people uncomfortable.

I am comfortable talking about sex scenes and stuff, but to me, when it's physically explicit, I do feel prudish and uncomfortable.