In the same interview as Woody Allen, the Last Temptation of Christ director referenced the gritty films of the '70s, noting the boldness and intensity of cinema's sex scenes during the turbulent decade. Scorsese also admitted that he really isn't sure how to approach sex on film anymore:

In the '70s, sex was tougher, stronger, I think. Certain things were very powerful, and I mean movies like Five Easy Pieces or Drive... They were so strange. Now, to a certain extent, with the exception of Crash, which I think is an extraordinary movie, and the very powerful way that Breaking the Waves goes about sexuality—there is a kind of scrubbed-clean quality that is not even sensual anymore. They are fake images and fake bodies. How do you shoot a sex scene? What would you do? I personally don't know how anymore... It really is tougher.

Amanda Seyfried

It's hard not to love Amanda Seyfried's attitude about sex scenes with her male and female co-stars. "Sex scenes are great. A lot of my co-stars have been sexy guys my age, and so, why not? I'm not going to pretend it's not fun," the Les Misérables said. She's also been up front about the uncomfortable emotions those moments can inspire. "Any kind of intimacy is strange," the actress noted.

Justin Timberlake

"It's actually kind of annoying, you're there for 12 hours, it's exhausting."

Angelina Jolie

The Academy Award-winning actress has shared sexy screen time with numerous leading men, including husband Brad Pitt. When it was her turn to go behind the camera for In the Land of Blood and Honey, Jolie admitted she approached the sex scene between stars Zana Marjanović and Goran Kostić a bit too "prudish." The experience gave her a new perspective. "You kind of suddenly feel this strange thing of asking people to participate in anything like that because they're not a real couple," she told USA Today. "You find out how strange this is to ask anybody to get naked together and put a camera on them."

Julie Christie

In Don't Look Now, a couple ravaged by the tragic death of their daughter try to pick up the pieces of their lives in Venice. A passionate moment of lovemaking between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie's characters is erotic but somber, considering the circumstances of their union and the film's finale. The scene caused quite a controversy during its time and rumors persisted for years about the sex being unsimulated. Christie put the kibosh on the chatter, and summed up her feelings on movie sex, in 2011: "Making love on camera is such hard work that there is no time for the libido to take over."

Chloë Sevigny

You'd think the actress that performed unsimulated oral sex on Vincent Gallo in Brown Bunny and did it Mormon-style with Bill Paxton on Big Love would be totally cool with sex on camera. Instead, Chloë Sevigny finds it awkward. "I'm not comfortable doing them—I don't think anyone ever is comfortable doing those kinds of scenes," she told The Playlist last year. In 2010, the star told Huffington Post she had lost interest in performing on-screen sex all together: "I've done many explicit sex scenes, but I'm not that interested in doing any more. I'm more self-aware now and wouldn't be able to be as free, so why even do it?"

Atom Egoyan