The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
The only thing that is obscene is censorship.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
The skin of my character in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.
Women should be obscene and not heard.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene.
I have an obscene fascination with cats... It's kind of embarrassing. But they're so cute.
