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"I don't believe in censorship in any form."
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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
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"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
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"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye."
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"We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won't be Joan's [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes-so the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children."
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"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
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"The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial."
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"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them."
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"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."
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"I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going."
Want
"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."
War
"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
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"I like high impact movies."
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"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."
Art
"I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive."
Movies
"My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one."
Film
"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding."
Civilization
"Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs."
Character
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