29 Quotes by Philip Kaufman

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.

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.

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

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.

The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

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.

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.

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.