Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.
Indian epics are full of violence, and such stories have shaped India. As filmmakers, I don’t think anyone in India would tone down violence, keeping in mind the censorship.
I will not ascribe to the ‘Blame America’ club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.
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.
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.
In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that’s now in place, the user doesn’t know to what extent, why, and under what authority there’s been censorship. There’s no way of appealing. There’s no due process.
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that’s the most dangerous kind of censorship – that’s how hegemony works.
I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject in my life that has been very important.
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
