Quotes About Censorship

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

MSNBC is barred from my household. CNN is barred from my household.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

If a slave was caught learning how to read and write, he could have his fingers or toes cut off!)

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe.

You have to be careful as a news organization that you don't fall into voluntary censorship, that you worry about offending your 'league partner.' I never worried about that. I worry about fans listening.

I'm not a 'real rapper'; I just like to talk about what I've been through. When I was younger, I just said random, stupid lyrics and censored myself because I was worried about what people would think. But now I've become more mature with my words and uncensored.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

Can't write worrying what the Internet's going to think.

After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism.

At the drop of a hat, people have begun to take offence. You can't write, paint, make films without worrying about some faction or other whose 'sentiments' will be hurt!