Philip Kaufman Thinking Quotations

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.

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.

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.