Philip Kaufman
Philip Kaufman
Philip Kaufmanis an American film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a career spanning more than five decades. He has been described as a "maverick" and an "iconoclast," notable for his versatility and independence. He is considered an "auteur", whose films have always expressed his personal vision.:1...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth23 October 1936
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.
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.
Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.
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.