Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies  

"With the release of Easy Rider and the triumph of the X-rated Midnight Cowboy [...] both the youth exploitation film and the adults only movie had moved into the commercial mainstream."--Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001)

"I have some pictures here that were made for folks just like you. You're going to sit quietly and look at them. And never again, will you ever think of sex as anything but something wonderful."--Because of Eve (1948)

"We had no parents in them, that's one of the important things. We never had any parents in the "Beach" pictures. [...] The ideal world for a teenager is a parentless existence. No parents to shout at 'em, no parents to lecture at 'em, no adults to rule them, to teach them, to mock them, to jail them. That was really what it was all about."--Samuel Z. Arkoff in Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001)

"We made I Was a Teenage Werewolf, I Was a Teenage Caveman, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. The word "teenage," to the best of my knowledge, had never appeared on any picture throughout the world prior to that time. Because the teenagers had never been recognized as other than the category of children."--Samuel Z. Arkoff in Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001)