Philip Kaufman Quotes

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.