Banned Quote by Amanda Schull

I was rejected for many-many films.

— Divya Dutta

Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused.

— Gao Xingjian

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little…

— Salman Rushdie

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

— Ma Jian

I had my lockdown period just after my two movies, 'Pardes' and 'Daag: The Fire,' where I had a double role, which was a…

— Mahima Chaudhry

I began my filmmaking career by shooting a feature length documentary in China in 2004, the year I graduated from film school.

— Lee Isaac Chung

One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else;…

— Edgar Dale

I am an actress. My first film was a Telugu film, my second film was Bollywood, and third was Indo-Chinese.

— Disha Patani

There was a time in China that I got cut.

— Christian Wood

It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry…

— Ma Jian

If you're an artist working in China, you become aware that there are things you have to give up in order to practice your…

— Jia Zhangke

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

— Kirk Douglas