Content Alteration Quotes

What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.

If you sign up for TV, expect the edit to make things interesting.

I very rarely read a script that I don't feel I want to change a lot.

We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.

To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.