Philip Kaufman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Interesting #Quality #Really Interesting
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
You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
-- Philip Kaufman

#Guarantees #Unhappiness #Reverse
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

#Thinking #America #Europe
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

#Children #Thinking #Lax
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

#Thinking #Looks #Answers
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

#Art #Fun #Ideas
The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.
-- Philip Kaufman

#Kind #Truth Is #All Kinds

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