Otto Preminger Quotes

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

All good art is an indiscretion.

A bunch of comedians have gotten in 'trouble' for sharing their views. When an actor or an artist or might come out saying something political or whatever, then it becomes about that view.

I try not to spend too much time interpreting my comics for people, because I try to put out there whatever I can, and people can draw whatever conclusions they want.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

I understand that, for some, everything is political.

We don't like trends. We formed initially because we felt we had something of our own to say. What was happening was lacking in certain aspects - it needed a different point of view, a variant on things, but with the same attack, impact.

I don't have any interest in filmmakers making statements just for the sake of being provocative.

It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be.

A lot of people advise me about the things that I need to do and shouldn't do, but I feel there is no right or wrong in the industry.

I like money but I love performance art and it goes hand in hand. I'm not the 'Titanic,' I'm 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' I'm not a blockbuster, I'm a cult classic. I think my strong but cult-like fanbase expects me to challenge norms.

Since everyone has a mouth, everyone will have an opinion.