"...the rules permit movie producers to re-edit their films and re-submit them in hopes of receiving another rating. Producers may also appeal a rating decision from the industry organizations that sponsor the rating system. A two-thirds secret-ballot vote of those present on the Appeals Board may overturn a rating board decision."
"Submitting a film is purely a voluntary decision made by the filmmakers. However, the overwhelming majority of the producers creating entertaining, responsible films do in fact submit their films for ratings."
"While the decision to enforce the rating system is purely voluntary, the National Association of Theatre Oners estimate that the majority of theaters observe the Classification and Rating Administration's guidelines."
--MPAA official website
"[This Film Has Not Yet Been Rated] made it clear that we probably haven't done as much as we can to explain how it all works."
--Dan Glickman, MPAA president
What those opposed to the MPAA explain:
"The MPAA rating system is guided by the greed of the movie industry and its fear of the religious right."
"Terrified of outside censorship, the MPAA is more sensitive to content involving language, mild sexuality, and subtle drug references than the average American moviegoer."
--Roger Ebert, highly-regarded film critic
"In a way, there is an exception to this rule [of no objectionable content in G-rated films], and it's Walt Disney Studio...They can get away with more violence and still get a G-rating...I think if anyone else tried to do that...[there] might be a different yardstick."
--Don Bluth, president of Don Bluth Films
“If you want to see the best Hollywood has to offer, better think before bringing the kids."
--Heldenfels, film critic
"[Independent] movies are often R-rated for language alone, while studio-backed movies like Titanic, with full frontal nudity and thousands of dead bodies, get off with PG-13 ratings because of their clout.
--Rhys Southan, writer
“Valenti [the previous head of the MPAA] has been very good publically about, ‘We serve the public. We serve the parents.’ It’s crap. They serve the studios. That’s who pays their bills. That’s who they are. I mean, they are the studios."
--Matt Stone, writer/director/producer
"Unfamiliarity is what breeds these NC-17s.”
--Kimberly Peirce, writer/director of Boys Don't Cry
“In Dedham, outside Boston, an intense public debate and threats of lawsuits ensued when 2 town council members, arguing that the NC-17 rating was nothing but a disguised X, prevailed upon a movie theater not to show the movies."
--Larry Rohter, reporter
“’The studio won’t release your movie if it’s NC-17.’ I was so floored."
--Kimberly Peirce
“If you are limited in your ability to market a film [due to an NC-17]…[people] are not going to know to even go to the theater to see that movie."
--Paul Dergarabedian, a box office analyst
“There’s no reason why the movie ratings…can’t be dealt with in a responsible, public way so there’s accountability."
--Jay Landers, former member of the MPAA
“That is what is odd about the whole thing, that in an industry as big and public as this that there is an organization that is supposedly accountable to the public that is run in such a shadowy way."
--Matt Stone
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