I guess I'm concerned that vulgarity has now officially entered the mainstream of our culture, and I think people have to respectfully stand up and say, 'No thanks.'

When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are coming into the theatres, and there's no blood and gore because of the kids. There is a set of people who doesn't like my cinema, but there's a bigger group that likes the kind of movies I make.

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

I'm glamour. I'm vulgarity. I'm scandal. I'm gossip. I'm the future. I'm the counter culture. I'm commercial reality. I'm artistic singularity.

There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do something extraordinary for the community, then you have to suffer.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity of almost everybody.

... vulgarity has no nation.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offence.

It is only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

She's a very charming and delightful creature ... and has only one fault that I know of. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Those who are addicted to the phrase to use a vulgarism expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.