Quotes on Artistic Freedom

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form of critical accountability.