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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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A.E. Samaan

"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

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A.E. Samaan

"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."

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A.E. Samaan

"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

"To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another."

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A.E. Samaan

"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera."

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A.E. Samaan

"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."

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A.E. Samaan

"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."

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A.E. Samaan

"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."

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A.E. Samaan

"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."

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

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

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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
"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."

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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
"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
"And I liked this extreme character of de Sade."

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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."

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