Andre Bazin Quotes

There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

I have the space and liberty to create.

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

As a writer, you are free.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

There are no rules in art.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.