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Violence is not funny.

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William Friedkin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 29
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Chicago
Illinois
Vilijam Friedkin
Violence
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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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I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.
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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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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films.
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The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.
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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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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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The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
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With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view it as a film about the mysteries of faith. It's easier for people to call it a horror film. Or a great horror film. Or the greatest horror film ever made. Whenever I see that, I feel a great distance from it.
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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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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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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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I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.
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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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God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.
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The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.
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I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved by a scintilla in 3D. To me, it's just a gimmick.
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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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I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
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