Titillation Quotes

As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is the worst kind. It raised itself above the din not through its value, importance, or accuracy but through the opposite: through slickness, titillation, and polarity.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

The 1st Amendment is about how we govern ourselves—not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

I used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

When a script shows two individuals attracted to each other, why can't they kiss on screen? As far as the scene is honest, not meant to titillate the masses, and, most importantly, I am convinced about it, I am okay with it.

I can't titillate the audience just for the sake of doing it.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

A lot of scripts are written with an eye on what will be popular or what will titillate or what this actor can do well. I don't think those kinds of scripts ever work.

Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.