Movies are movies, and I don’t think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

Pryor’s remark dismisses recurring moral panics about popular entertainment—especially film—as exaggerated and performative. By reducing the issue to “Movies are movies,” he frames cinema as a medium of stories and spectacle rather than a direct engine of national ethical collapse. The phrase “moral fiber of America” echoes the rhetoric of censors and culture-war commentators; calling it “nonsense” signals Pryor’s skepticism toward attempts to police art on moral grounds. Implicitly, he suggests that social problems blamed on movies have deeper causes, and that audiences can distinguish representation from endorsement. The line also fits Pryor’s broader persona: blunt, anti-hypocritical, and resistant to respectability politics.