Philip Kaufman Quotes
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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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
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I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.
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Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.
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I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.
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Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.
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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.
