Quotes About Provocation

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The Daily Mail had branded the books 'pure porn poison', which the publishers had cheekily reprinted on the cover.

My position has always been to avoid violence to avoid provocation.

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.

Frankly, the idea that exposed legs are some sort of sexual provocation is an argument one would expect to hear from a religious fundamentalist, not a feminist.

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

Of course defenders will try to provoke me - that is their job.

If you engage with the police, filled with fear, you're more likely to make really bad decisions that than provoke them to take action.

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it - in a world in which everything else is out of control.

I know that there are coaches in the Bundesliga that have said in team meetings, 'Provoke Xhaka; he will eventually go ballistic.' I think that is sad. That, in my view, has nothing to do with football.

If I have a voice to shine light on things or draw attention or provoke, as an artist people look to - I should do that.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.

As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.

I want film stories to provoke a question in people about what's going on emotionally around them and empower them in some way or ask them about themselves.

There's no question that Ben Shapiro loves to provoke college students.

We are professionals, we have to set the example and not provoke anyone.

To the degree you could provoke people and engage them in a unique way, your message is more likely to resonate longer. I figured out the less-than-140-character concept long before Twitter came along.