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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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"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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Akshay Vasu

"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."

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Akshay Vasu

"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."

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Akshay Vasu

"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."

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Akshay Vasu

"Looper is another great film."

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Akshay Vasu

"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."

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Akshay Vasu

"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

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Akshay Vasu

"Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done."

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Akshay Vasu

"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."

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Philip Kaufman
"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."

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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."

Movies

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Philip Kaufman
"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."

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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."

Film

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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."

Happiness

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

Society

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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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Philip Kaufman
"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."

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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
"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."

Strength

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