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Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.
William Friedkin
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William Friedkin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 29
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I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
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With all of my films that are on DVD and Blu-ray, I have spent weeks with them in a color timing room. Just changing or enhancing them. I have been desaturating the color. Sometimes I will make a scene bluer or redder. I do use the new medium. I believe in it.
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The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.
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I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.
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To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
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All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up.
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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
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There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
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Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.
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If you're a movie star, the studios don't want you to act. They just want you to show up and look good and chase girls and have a lot of laughs.
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I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams.
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We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.
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But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never.
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I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.
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I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.
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God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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There are certain things that happen during the production of, I think, every film, that you didn't plan, and often it's better than what you did plan. There's the question of either going with it or not.
William Friedkin
Violence is not funny.
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I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.
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