Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.
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.
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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.
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you're just unable to focus.
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.
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.
One thing that success has taught me is censorship.
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.
I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
The only thing that is obscene is censorship.
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.
People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.
Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.
