Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.
I think that things like Twitter and the blogosphere are so instantaneously critical that I think it's actually created a bit of a culture of artistic fear to branch out too much because you don't want to be slammed.
Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.
As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.
For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'
The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.
There's so much control, so many executive producers, so many people looking over their shoulder, so many people trying to second-guess the boss. The space for writers and directors and actors to be creative is zilch.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
You don't have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.
Political cartoonists are an endangered species. Their habitat is rapidly disappearing
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
