KATHARINE HEPBURN: Sex, pornography, and obscenity have always sold better than anything else. Now you make it respectable and you make it sort of an art form. . . . [Sam Peckinpah] knew better than to make Straw Dogs. This is the rottenest piece of work that I ever saw . . . it’s laughable and cheap. It is brutality . . . I think it’s phony. I think A Clockwork Orange is phony. I think that Sunday Bloody Sunday is phony. I think they are just pathetic. I just go and laugh and throw up.
