Hitchcock and the Censors Quotes

“The subject doesn’t count,” the director said. “You get your satisfaction through style of treatment. I’m not interested in content.”3”
― John Billheimer, Hitchcock and the Censors

“FCC was established by Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 to regulate the private use of a limited public resource, broadcast bandwidths. The FCC’s purview included the right to prohibit “obscene and indecent” material. Although it could not censor such material in advance, it had the power to issue warnings and fines after the fact, and to refuse to renew the licenses of chronic miscreants.”
― John Billheimer, Hitchcock and the Censors

“He allowed the audience to create what they thought they saw. When the audience becomes a part of the creative process, they aren’t going to forget.”
― John Billheimer, Hitchcock and the Censors

“one gets tired of saying no and someday I might want to say yes and not get asked.”4”
― John Billheimer, Hitchcock and the Censors

“In Under Capricorn, Breen and the Code didn’t have much input on an already bad film, but the chief censor’s attempt to influence the private life of the movie’s star paradoxically helped to scuttle further federal regulation of the film industry.”
― John Billheimer, Hitchcock and the Censors

“One picture may be worth a thousand words, but you’ll never prove it by David O. Selznick.”
― John Billheimer, Hitchcock and the Censors