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Philip Kaufman

"Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned."

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"Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned."

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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

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Donna Grant

"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."

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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Donna Grant

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

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Donna Grant

"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."

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Philip Kaufman
"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."

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Philip Kaufman
"The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things."

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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."

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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."

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

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Philip Kaufman
"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."

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Philip Kaufman
"I read, therefore I'm interested in writers."

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Philip Kaufman
"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."

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Philip Kaufman
"Is there something to be said for the writings of the Marquis? Is there something to be said for pornography? And is there something to be said against both? I hope our film is balanced and rich enough to encourage debate and discussion."

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Philip Kaufman
"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."

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