As a parent myself, I can appreciate the MPAA and what they're supposed to do, but what happens with NC-17 is that the MPAA is basically taking away the rights of parents. They're basically telling me that I can't show my kids this movie if I decide they can see it.
The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture screens and on the news stands that are constantly stimulating our young people.
It stands for diversity. It stands for vision and strength. It stands for belief in the right things. That's what I think it stands for.
You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.
I defy anyone now to tell me about patriotism and what America stands for, while we've elected a man who ran on everything that's anathema to what people say that America stands for.
The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song.
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don't even rhyme with T.
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.
I've been very thankful in my state legislative career to have gotten support from both the MPAA and various movie studios.
The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.
It's my mission to sue the MPAA and take them down. I don't know how to go about doing that. But to me, it seems like it's something that has to be taken care of.
You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.