Vikramaditya Motwane Quotes

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

Regardless of the strength of the government's interest [in protecting children,] the level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

For me personally, when I was a kid, that's like the stuff I wanted to watch - all the R-rated stuff.

Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

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

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.

They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

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

As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

It's very difficult to have just a little bit of censorship.

Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious.

Apropos of the agitation for abolishing the Censor in England, it occurred to me that not even the advocates of freedom seek to justify the free treatment of sexual matters in any other than a high moral-pointing vein. The notion that sexual themes might allowably be treated in the mere aim of amusement does not seem to have occurred to anybody at all.

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

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'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored.

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

It is a misuse of words if you say 'content censorship'. But no censorship does not mean there is no management.