Censorship Quotes

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.