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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

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#heart #like #stomach #varied #wants

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

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

#always #children #harrowing #i #i think

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. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#called #even #film #fought #francisco

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing. ↗

— Diana Krall

#anything #before #being #doing #feel

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

#answers #anything #complex #death #death penalty

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#because #believes #bible #buddha #god

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#based #belief #command #confident #every