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"I don't believe in censorship in any form."
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"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."
"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."
"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
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"I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive."
"There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible."
"When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism."
"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies."
"One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War."
"Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people."
"On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously."
"When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience."
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