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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.
William Friedkin
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William Friedkin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 29
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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 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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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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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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I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.
William Friedkin
If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.
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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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In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.
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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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Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.
William Friedkin
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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You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? Oh, we will always need actors. Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.
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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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