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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If the early Chinese people had any chivalry, it was manifested not toward women and children, but toward old people. That feeling of chivalry found clear expression in Mencius in some such saying as, 'The people with gray hair should not be seen carrying burdens on the street,' which was expressed as the final goal of good government.
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
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I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick. How can anything be beautiful if it's not ecologically intelligent at this point?
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Music is a precious gift of God, and like flowers, colour, fragrance, water, fire, and air, musical notes do not belong to any religion.
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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.
