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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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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 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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To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
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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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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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Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.
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Violence is not funny.
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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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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
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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 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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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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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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The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.
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When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.
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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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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 digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.
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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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