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There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and see over and over again, are not my own.

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William Friedkin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 29
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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.
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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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There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.
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I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.
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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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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 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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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 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 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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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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There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
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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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One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.
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Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original.
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The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.
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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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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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If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.
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