"The movie has a Marxist signature if you want and if you like that. Otherwise you don't have to see that because there's enough story to make you forget about it."

"I think there is a lot of sexual innuendo and presence of course in this movie and I think that is the influence of the movie before. Now that I have distance of course I feel that we emphasized the sexuality and the erotics a bit too much."

"Katie thinks that singing a song that has a socialist underpinning would basically that people would like that."

"Again it's saying if you want to make your way up as a woman--in this case a good looking woman--then you have to use your body as a tool."

"We were never really able to correct the script because of the problem of the books, which had no dramatic line or even any narrative."

"A sexual scene is of course cheaper in general than making a big scene about the Socialist Revolution."

"I think the way it is shot and the colors and everything , we tried to give an impression that refers vaguely to Impressionist paintings of the late 19th century."

"If you look at this shot, it's not so different from Basic Instinct, with the mirror. [...] You see that the director is really not able to take any distance of the rest of his work. You're continuously falling into the same traps you could say... or you could say that's the style of the director. I hope you think the last."

"We needed an actor that was willing and able to have an erection in fact. That was not easy to find."

"Everybody wants to touch Katie and perhaps that's a little bit exaggerated but that's how we plotted it at that time."

"[The political themes of the movie are] basically an attack on the capitalist system, where some people are living pretty well but most people are living pretty bad."

"There are multiple symbols here with the mother buying the sausage, which is of course the penis of the client."

"You know how men are. Cannot trust them in any way."

"There is this kind of realism to the movie that in general, people are not good."

"Could you make the movie better [if you did it now]? Yes. I have a feeling that I'm not obsessed anymore by the sexual innuendo themes."

"It's a strong character, a very lovable character I feel, even if you disagree with her choices, her moral choices or whatever, and I hope you enjoyed the movie and forgive the little problems that I pointed out in the script."

(Preceding quotes from the director's commentary on the Katie Tippel DVD)

Between Turkish Delight and Katie Tippel, cinematographer Jan de Bont and actress Monique van der Ven were married. The rape scene was especially hard to film as a result.

Keetje's family's house was a set, and was the one time that Verhoeven used a set in his Dutch films. The rest of the film was shot on location.

The book Katie is reading in the beginning of the film is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

The way the family is shot eating around the table is supposed to be reminiscent of the Van Gogh painting "The Potato Eaters."

The story of Katie is a true one based on the autobiography by a Dutch woman named Neel Doff.