This simplistic view would make me livid if I cared more about the integrity of Quills and its fidelity to history, including intellectual history — as much as I care, say, about the integrity of the Coen brothers' forthcoming O Brother, Where Art Thou? and its fidelity to Mississippi, the Depression, the popular front, the Ku Klux Klan... Instead of being livid, I quickly decided I preferred to be entertained by Kaufman's sexiness and silliness — Quills is a guilty pleasure I chose to indulge.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
December 15, 2000