Content Restriction Quotes

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

There are some people who cannot watch every film because of age. They might watch only three films in a year.

 My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.

When I'm writing for other people, I have to play it safe.

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

Put an end to the sale of books of the kind in question—those with titles, jacket designs, or illustrations suggestion of indecent content.

AOL-Time Warner didn't want a WCW property on their platforms - being TNT or TBS or anything else - in any way, shape, or form, and that was the death nail.

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

I rarely tweet unless I'm talking about 'The Bachelor.' I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though - it's like a rigid parent. It's much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video - it changes the game a little bit.

You don't want everyone to see a piece of content. You want the people who are really excited about the content to see it.

Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.

In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn't be able to watch this. But I don't play in movies like this. Due to that, I said, 'I won't be a part of that if the hardcore language is not erased.'

If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.

For example, I'm a great fan of pornography, but I don't see any reason not to restrict it so that people walking down the street who hate pornography don't have full color pictures outside of movie theaters. Let them be in a different district. I'm kidding about pornography, but you get the point.

I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.

There are certain things I would never write about - anything that's too distasteful. I think that you can withhold information.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibited, noncompliant search engines excluded, and sensitive search words disallowed. And where China goes, others, also informed by different values, are already and will follow.

Editors must control broadcasts to prevent information, even accurate, from damaging or alarming the population by its form, presentation or timing.

Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.