Rachel Blanchard Quotes

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.

I think satire suffered under Obama, but not because of Obama. People are more sensitive now than ever, and strong satirical voices are stifled because of that. I don't think a Clinton presidency would change that.

I don’t think that they would have allowed me to make The Best Years of Our Lives just a few years after I made it [in 1946].

'Raaz Reboot' doesn't have extreme boldness, but I was apprehensive about the kissing scenes.

'Udta Punjab' has a brilliant script.

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way

There's a lot of ridiculous hypocrisy about sex in films today. And that's one of the reasons why I made 9 Songs, to say, "Why can't you put sex in a film?"

It's funny that you can murder someone horribly and graphically and disturbingly in a horror film, and it's not an NC-17, but if you put a naked man on screen, everyone freaks out.

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

Political correctness is a minefield

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue.

I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.

The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.

These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies. Whereas, I hear novels on marriage are not selling. This is perhaps not the judgment of God, but it is certainly that of history.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.

Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism.

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!