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I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.

Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that killed him.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.