Daniel Gillies Quotes

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

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

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

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

Artists can do whatever they want!

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

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

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

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

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.

When censorship is intelligent, it will stop a film before it is made. If not, it is too late.

In this Nation every writer, actor, or producer ... should be free from the censor.

We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue—the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word, that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.

Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

I must say here in France I had more serenity or security as I was working because I knew I was making the film the way I wished and that the film would be seen, ultimately, which is not always the case in Iran. In Iran, you always work having in mind this worry of will I be able to carry on my project as I wish and will the audience see the film.

I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None.

Censorship should never go. But we can always give a little more space to the director.

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.