Zitat des Tages über Selbstzensur / Self-Censorship:
I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.
As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.