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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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Donna Grant

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

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Donna Grant

"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

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Donna Grant

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

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Donna Grant

"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

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Donna Grant

"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

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Donna Grant

"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

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Donna Grant

"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

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Donna Grant

"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."

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Donna Grant

"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."

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Donna Grant

"Easter is the final solution to the finality of death."

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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."

Movies

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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."

Time

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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."

Time

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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
"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
"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."

Film

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