"I am, but I'm also obsessed by politics".
Danny is also obsessed by power, and knows that information is a form of it.
As a child he was also obsessed by comic books and Mad magazine, both of which his father hated.
But Leonardo was also obsessed by instability, tension, and movement in nature, and these phenomena - the exact opposite of the static, secret truths uncovered by Pythagoras or the hidden Platonic forms - destabilise his cosmos.
Each woman is also obsessed by the other: aside from their famously fictional encounter at Fotheringay, Icke even has Mary appear in palpable form to the conscience-troubled Elizabeth, and the two women exchange a hesitant kiss.
In Mr. McQueen's second feature film, "Shame," Mr. Fassbender plays Brandon, a high-achieving young executive in New York who is also obsessed by sex, but solely of the casual, pre-paid Internet and call-girl variety, being chronically unable to maintain normal relationships.
Halliwell was also obsessed by the idea of multiviewpoint drama, and used as illustration the idea of dog-bites-man: "You show the incident from the point of the view of the man, from the point of view of the dog and then from the point of view of the bite," he said.
He remained convinced that sound would not work in his films, but was also "obsessed by a depressing fear of being old-fashioned".
Mr Levy, like most other successful investors, is also obsessed with the opportunities and threats generated by the tax code.And he knows that on Wall Street sharks outnumber bulls and bears even, or perhaps above all, in the most respected firms.
Not only was Boone influenced by the storytelling, he was also obsessed with sound effects.
