Quotes About Controversy

When the Left doesn't want to make abortion the issue, they say you're being against minorities.

I started the whole 'Into Thin Air' thing - nothing I'm proud of.

If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you'd end up with a very thin and meaningless show.

When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical.

Donald Trump believes in conspiracies. He has thin skin and is impulsive.

Liberalism is a cancer; it's a forest fire; it destroys every single thing it touches.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

If you have a drug that is $100 for one course of therapy, and you know that you can charge $100,000, what should shareholders think when you say, 'I'd rather not take the heat'?

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.

While most people in the world probably haven't heard my name, Vladimir Putin thinks about my name on a very regular basis. He really dislikes me because I'm the guy responsible for the Magnitsky Act.

Planned Parenthood has consistently claimed to 'care' for women 'no matter what' and champion 'women's rights' - yet they frantically silence any woman who thinks women deserve better than Planned Parenthood.

Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.

Andy Dick is so gay, he thinks Margaret Cho is funny.

There's a difference between early and late abortions. If you have a late abortion, where the fetus might feel pain, then I think you should have a good reason. Because then you're inflicting pain. As you go through the third trimester, you need to have more serious reasons to end a pregnancy.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

There are usually three sections of people who like my work. There are those who like them aesthetically. They see beauty in the images. Second, there are those who like the horror aspect, which is by design, and I like that. Third, there are those who are moved by the historical or political nature of them. They want to talk about them.

I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').

This whole thing with Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas happened during my first year of college. It was a cross-section of race and politics and gender that I feel is still going on today.

I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.