Hays Code Quotes

“Hollywood’s motives in marketing sex may have been cynical—Hollywood’s motives always are. But in providing audiences with sophisticated fare, it was also responding to real cultural changes that had happened within American society. Hollywood was a few years behind the trend, of course, but that’s nothing new. Don’t forget, this is the same industry that for seventy years has made wonderful, passionate, stirring anti-war movies six or seven years after every war, never during one.”
― Mick LaSalle, Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood

“What are you doing Friday night?" I asked.

"Whatever you tell me to do." The line dripped with the kind of innuendo they invented the Hays Code for.”
― Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead