Dario Argento Quotes

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

Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was wrong.

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.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

You know I've had work banned.

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.

Art must not serve might.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

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.

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