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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Free speech is life itself.
Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It's like that. If you're going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.
