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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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William Friedkin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 29
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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.
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If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.
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Violence is not funny.
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Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.
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The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm negatives? They are wasting their time. There are better ways to see and project this stuff. It's called digital.
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The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.
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'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.
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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
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I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.
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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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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 it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.
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To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.
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When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.
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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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I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.
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And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.
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There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
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If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.
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