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"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
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"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."
"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."
"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."
"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
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"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
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