Pornographic Quotes

(About shooting nude scenes for The Dreamers) "I am a very shy person in life, very reserved, but you know, it`s Bertolucci. I`ve seen Last Tango and it`s not pornographic, it`s not vulgar, it`s not sick, so I trusted him. He`s a master of love and eroticism, but it`s good because I stopped being self-conscious. I felt like I was on drugs or anaesthetised because you have to be. You have to let yourself slip away and forget everything, forget the sound guy and all that."

"Most everybody today that`s young is operating under the insane idea that what we`ve got going on is the best that there is. But it`s not. Current entertainment is cheap, shoddy, infantile, adolescent, not grown-up. We`re fed imagery that`s really pornographic, by people with an infantile idea of sexuality. It`s a sad and depressing thing."

(about shooting nude scenes for The Dreamers (2003):) "I am a very shy person in life, very reserved, but you know, it`s Bertolucci. I`ve seen Last Tango and it`s not pornographic, it`s not vulgar, it`s not sick, so I trusted him. He`s a master of love and eroticism, but it`s good because I stopped being self-conscious. I felt like I was on drugs or anaesthetised because you have to be. You have to let yourself slip away and forget everything, forget the sound guy and all that." (February 5, 2004)

(Of her watching "Bettie Page" pornographic film loops to understand her character in The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)) I love the loops! I couldn`t take my eyes off of them. It was five minutes dedicated to the art of the shoe, and putting the shoe on -- but first the stocking. It was so geisha. There was something so presentational. Bettie was just lost in her own world, dancing around with this fringe bikini on, with this weird lamp on the side table.

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

Every single day, the flood of pornographic and sleazy spam grows.

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.