on films, sex and art

A sex scene needs to be about something. Otherwise, why show it? It's like walking: You don't show people walking if they aren't going somewhere. -- Paul Verhoeven

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children. -- Francis Ford Coppola

Sex and violence have always gone very well together, it's like bacon and eggs... I think there is always a sexual component in violence and there is a violent component in sexuality. -- David Cronenberg