#so

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue ↗

— Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

#knowledge-of-the-self #knowledge-wisdom #lessons-in-life #lessons-learned #life

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat. ↗

— Lloyd Kaufman

#eat #enough #first #him #hundred

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ↗

— Lloyd Kaufman

#die #each #eating #encouraged #hours

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

#brought #budget #canada #concerns #danger

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

#cause #comes #dual #external #find

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

#another time #back #coming #expression #film

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

#cases #down #either #film #go

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 #imprisoned #kept #marquis #must

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

#also #atmosphere #city #create #creepy

The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#economic #intellectual #much #society #structure