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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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"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
"Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight."
"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."
"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
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"I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams."
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