Time & Perspective Quote by Neve Campbell

Campbell’s line lands because it refuses the usual saint-or-sinner framing of on-screen nudity and instead names the boring engine behind a lot of it: commerce. “Written solely for box office draw” is a quietly damning diagnosis. She’s not attacking nudity as such; she’s indicting a production logic where a woman’s body becomes a marketing tactic, inserted not because the story needs it but because someone in the room believes skin can do the work of character.

The subtext is power, and who gets to pretend it isn’t there. Campbell is pointing to authorship as the real battleground: when nudity is “written,” it’s premeditated, budgeted, pitched. That word choice shifts the conversation from performer comfort to the upstream decision-making that makes discomfort predictable. It also exposes how “tasteful” can be a fig leaf; a scene can be beautifully lit and still function as a transactional lure.

Context matters: Campbell came up in a ’90s Hollywood that sold “edginess” with an almost assembly-line reliance on sexualized female vulnerability, especially in thrillers and horror-adjacent fare where her own fame was forged. Her critique reads as an insider’s recalibration, part of a broader cultural movement toward intimacy coordinators, clearer consent protocols, and a more explicit accounting of who benefits when the camera lingers.

What makes the quote effective is its strategic moderation. She doesn’t moralize; she clarifies incentives. Once you name the incentive, you can’t unsee the pattern.