Quotes by Philip Kaufman - Page 1

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.
Philip Kaufman / Film Director
Therefore
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And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
Philip Kaufman / Film Director
Extreme
Sade
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The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.
Philip Kaufman / Film Director
All Kinds
Kind
Truth Is
Drawn
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Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.
Philip Kaufman / Film Director
Creative
Directors
Inspire
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The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.
Philip Kaufman / Film Director
Danger
Structure
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You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
Philip Kaufman / Film Director
Guarantees
Reverse
Unhappiness
Guarantee
No Guarantee
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Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
Philip Kaufman / Film Director
Status Quo
Disturb
Imprisoned
Presented
Quo
Similarly
Status
Therefore
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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 / Film Director
Art
Smile
Fun
Ideas
Idle
Joy
Pursuing
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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 / Film Director
Canada
Cases
Prague
Romania
Nowadays
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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 / Film Director
Children
Lax
Sexuality
Thinking
Harrowing
Restrictions
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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 / Film Director
America
Europe
Thinking
Adult
Huge Audience
Relationships
Whereas
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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 / Film Director
Canada
Danger
Film
Reason
Always Me Know
Budget
Concerns
Me Always Know
Nowadays
Reasons
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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 they have this archaic quality.
Philip Kaufman / Film Director
Quality
Interesting
Laughable
Seems
Archaic
Harmless
Incendiary
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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 / Film Director
Answers
Death Penalty
Looks
Thinking
Complex
Penalty
Sade
Strangely
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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 / Film Director
Following
Shot
External
Dual
Haunted
Searching
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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 / Film Director
Another Time
Our Time
Relevance
Repression
Time Great Me
Great Story
Seemed
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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 / Film Director
Paramount
San Francisco
Fought
Initially
Pleased
San
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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 / Film Director
Atmosphere
Creepy
Hitchcock
Homage
Psychological
Twists
Vertigo
Shot
Forth
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