Jeff MacNelly Quotes

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.

I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.

People hate us for showing stuff, and they hate us when we say, 'Fine, we won't show it anymore.'

I hate censorship, man. I really do.

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.

One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Because there's so much stuff I don't release.

No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it has dislikes. That should be an indication that there will be some who get offended no matter what you do. The best you can do as an entertainer or as someone who performs is to follow what you believe in.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

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

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.