Philip Kaufman Professions : Film director Born : October 23, 1936 Browse All Authors Top 18 quotes by Philip Kaufman You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. Philip Kaufman reverse unhappiness guarantees Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff. Philip Kaufman creative inspire directors 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 concerns me. Philip Kaufman canada film reason I read, therefore I'm interested in writers. Philip Kaufman 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 they have this archaic quality. Philip Kaufman quality seems interesting 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. Philip Kaufman europe america thinking 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. Philip Kaufman lax children thinking 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, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that. Philip Kaufman answers looks thinking 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. Philip Kaufman fun ideas art The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things. Philip Kaufman all-kinds truth-is kind 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 'em down in L.A. Philip Kaufman down go canada want 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 the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased. Philip Kaufman go think know you 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 his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth. Philip Kaufman woman city great way 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 and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer. Philip Kaufman think mystery truth past And I liked this extreme character of de Sade. Philip Kaufman sade liked extreme character 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. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage. Philip Kaufman story great me time The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure. Philip Kaufman economic society intellectual danger Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned. Philip Kaufman disturb status someone who Similar Authors Alex Graves film-director Brad Furman film-director Bryan Singer film-director Bruno Dumont film-director Bruce McDonald film-director Bruce Brown film-director All Authors
