Quotes About Controversial

I naturally want to be provocative.

I don't think of my movies as provocative.

I like to provoke. I'm very French.

It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

I like work that pushes the barrier of bad taste.

Putin is lovely.

When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in't it?

Medicaid is a deeply flawed program.

Jose Mourinho is the Floyd Mayweather Jr of football management. You either love him or hate him.

America was founded on satanism.

I liked Rebecca Black's 'Friday.'

Rebecca Black 'Friday' song is the best song ever! Don't you agree!

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

I have this fringe theory that I've sort of stress-tested a little bit - the more polarising and popular a case is, the more likely an acquittal.

I'm probably one of the wildest, most out-of-control people in the industry.

I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. If something is taking a chance and is willing to be weird, that's my favorite thing. I know there's somebody out there who hates it.

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.