Obscenity Quotes

(On filmmaking) "You have to show violence the way it is. If you don`t show it realistically, then that`s immoral and harmful. If you don`t upset people, then that`s obscenity."

You think about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died and all the soldiers who have come back wounded and maimed. You read the paper and four more soldiers last week died and mercenaries have killed 27 people in Baghdad, mercenaries who are getting money from our tax dollars that should be going to protect the troops, and I`m depressed about the Cubs game. There`s a disconnect there. My point in all seriousness is that it`s such an abstraction, and this government has asked us to sacrifice nothing for this. The troops are sacrificing everything. It just seems like an obscenity.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don`t show it realistically, then that`s immoral and harmful. If you don`t upset people, then that`s obscenity.

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

Janet Reno did not feel comfortable enforcing obscenity laws. She didn`t want to do it, and nobody made her do it.

(The past eight years have been tough for groups like Taylor`s, as law enforcement agencies -- particularly the Justice Department -- have shown little interest in anti-porn efforts.) Janet Reno did not feel comfortable enforcing obscenity laws, ... She didn`t want to do it, and nobody made her do it.

I don`t have children but if I did and my child wanted to act, I`d be fine with him acting in my movie where I feel a certain dignity is accorded. But I would never let my child act in a commercial for the Gap or Banana Republic or for some other consumer goods corporation. That would be the obscenity.

The goal is to stop the obscenity in the store window. You don`t advertise with soft porn. Clearly that`s violating community standards.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can`t seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.