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"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."
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"The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it."
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."
"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
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"Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."
"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."
"I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't."
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