29 Quotes by Philip Kaufman

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On the other hand, I think the ratings system needs some reworking. I don't think this is a movie parents should bring underage children to.

Certainly since Freudian times, we all recognize that there is something called the libido, and that there are various ways of inspiring it.