Anurag Kashyap Quotes

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

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.

I have no issue with the CBFC.

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

If we must have the Production Code, then I think the only way to use it effectively is to judge a film as a whole and determine whether its effect is good or bad.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

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.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

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!'

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

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.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

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

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

I do not want to see censorship, yet I don't believe a dime of taxpayer money should go into art that is clearly and visibly filth.

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

If we should pass on whether or not a film is pornographic, we should take a look at it.

In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain - he had much wavier hair and a slightly thicker mustache. But when you deny an artist the chance to explore his art, you're forcing your beliefs on him.

Mass protests often get books or films banned, but very few people take to the streets to challenge the right of the State to decide what we can read or watch - it's still someone else's problem.

The CBFC is only mirroring society.

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.