Philip Kaufman Quotes

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• What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because…
• To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
• Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps,…
• They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.
• Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.
• You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
• I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.
• But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really…
• Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.
• The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.
• This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get…
• And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
• The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.
• Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
• I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth…
• Is there something to be said for the writings of the Marquis? Is there something to be said for pornography? And is there something to…
• It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time.…
• Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep…
• That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of…

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