Milos Forman: Honestly, in my whole life I never saw anything that an adult person could not see, and to use indignation of somebody who is offended by a photograph - and sometimes I am offended - but to use it for opening the door for censorship, I think one day we'll pay much higher a price for that than tolerating a photograph. Because it always started like that. I'm very sorry to bring my life into it, but twice in my life I experienced what it means if, for noble cause, you open the censorship a little bit. The Communists, even the Nazis, were saying it - 'Yes, we are for the freedom, we want freedom, but to let the moral fabric of society to be allowed by somebody, that we will not allow'. Once you open the door to censorship just a little bit, it never stays open just a little bit. The paradox is that you here in England pay a very high price for legislators who battled and allowed Hitler to muzzle the press. It always starts totally inconspicuously, in the name of morality.
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