I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.
More Quotes from Philip Kaufman:
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
And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
Philip Kaufman
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
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
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
Certainly since Freudian times, we all recognize that there is something called the libido, and that there are various ways of inspiring it.
Philip Kaufman
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