Cinema, Censorship, and the State Quotes

“An artist does not build his work on one single theme, any more than a man lives his life according to only one idea. Foolish critics, however, want to think that works have just one theme running through them. Then when they find something that contradicts that one theme, they immediately say that they don’t understand the work. Our work has nothing to do with these foolish critics. We want to put into it everything we are thinking and experiencing now. If we didn’t, creative work would have no meaning for us.”
― Nagisa Oshima, Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956-1978