Erika Lust quotes

The sex can stay dirty, but the values have to be clean.
-- Erika Lust

#Dirty #Values

I like the concept of shooting beautiful, aesthetic, cinematographic pieces, and still allowing them to be explicit
-- Erika Lust

#Beautiful #Explicit #Aesthetic

I always ask my actors with whom they'd like to work. Before shooting we discuss how their characters are supposed to have sex. Everybody knows that communication is important; it's no problem to say you need a break.
-- Erika Lust

#Communication #Character #Important

Narrative is so important for building the sexual tension. Can you imagine a horror movie that only shows the blood, with no context? I think women need to get to know the characters before they start stripping.
-- Erika Lust

#Character #Thinking #Important

Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.

I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

The value of a man resides in what he gives

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.