Quotes About Taboo

I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore.

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.

I think nudity is funny, especially when it's inappropriate.

I think women believed for a long time that it was inappropriate for them to be interested in true crime. It made them judge themselves, or feel weird or ghoulish.

People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.

Tell me the truth, Italian. You don't like it because it's strong. You like it because it's illegal.

To know the difference between erotica and pornography you must first know the difference between naked and nude.

Kannibalism on patt, kui sööja teab, mida sööb.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

My poo is just a part of life, but for some reason, it makes children giggle. And it sometimes makes grown-ups nervous. I don't know why, because I keep my poo FAR-FAR-FAR away from my food

I sort of fell in love with the idea that we all love things that we're not supposed to, and that, often, that love is also 'tainted.' I wrapped it in sort of a graphic novel theme, and out of that came 'Tainted Love.'

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Coït, copulation. Mots à éviter. Dire : « Ils avaient des rapports… »

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

There are things which cannot be mentioned, and what is done in common humanity is sometimes cruelly judged by the law.

She herself had given up washing long ago, and besides, people no longer believed in stale urine, either for one purpose or another.

The truth is,everything we really desire is either forbidden,immoral or unhealthy, and if you're lucky, all three at once.

illegal drugs are better for you than the legal stuff. How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral, or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?

All sex, and indeed all pleasure, must include a poisonous drop of perversion, of devilish transgression—of evil, even—for it to be worth getting into bed for.