Ekta Kapoor Quotes

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.

In a feature film, the question of censorship always comes up.

All my films were based on sensitive issues, and they were passed without any problems. I give full credit to the Censor Board for being capable enough to do their work well.

I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

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

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!'

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.

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

I see the FCC responding to an already repressive society and raw censorship is the result.

In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.

For thirty years the press has ceased to exist in Turkey. There are indeed newspapers, many of them even, but the scissors of censorship cut them in so emasculating a manner that they no longer have any potency. If I dare, I would call them gelded newspapers or rather, to keep the local color, eunuchs.

Censorship is a stupid thing. There should be certification, and not censorship. People are smart enough to understand that if a film is meant for kids, then kids will watch it and if a film is meant for adults, only adults will watch it.

I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.

If the press is to be free, the state has no role in regulating what is published.

I don't mind ratings boards. As a viewer, you have the right not to see a film.

You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots.

We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is censorship. Like, if you make an R-rated movie, you know that only a certain amount of people are going to go see it under any circumstance.

Rupert Murdoch is in bed with Cameron. Of course they want to kill the BBC... anybody who is in the way.