: Initially, he uses sheets smuggled out by the laundress Madeleine .
In Quills , paper is not just a surface for text; it represents the . The film posits that:
In the 2000 film , the relationship between art and its "paper" is literal and extreme. Directed by Philip Kaufman, the movie tells a fictionalized story of the Marquis de Sade's final days in the Charenton insane asylum, where his obsession with writing becomes a battle for his very identity. The Desperation of the Medium