art Quotes

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.