Upsets Quotes

(speaking in the late 60s) "I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our days we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there`s no mystery. No privacy. And no sex either. Most of the sex I`ve seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex."

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

(on director Bernardo Bertolucci) Bertolucci is not like most directors I`ve worked with; there`s something beautiful, crazy, special about him. He`s funny too. He operates like a writer. No one knows what he`s going to do. Several million dollars are riding on him alone. He has the power, he goes ahead, upsets those who plan schedules, takes his own time, follows his own genius.

...the need to overcome the potentially fascistic direction of American politics as the Religious Right and the secular right strengthen their alliance and their hold on American political institutions makes us want to transcend past upsets and focus on how to build the most effective social change movement for the future...

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Watching upsets and being a part of an upset are two different things.

Every game is so important, especially in a year like this with so many upsets. You can`t lose focus. After last year, I think the reminder is still clear enough.

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.

Apparently people don`t like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, `Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.` I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.