Ram Charan Quotes

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.

A bunch of comedians have gotten in 'trouble' for sharing their views. When an actor or an artist or might come out saying something political or whatever, then it becomes about that view.

Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'

Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.

There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded.

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say, might want to go in a certain direction, and while it may seem like it has resonance with things that are happening topically, you kind of want the world you're creating to have its own internal logic.

In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.