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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.
William Friedkin
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William Friedkin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 29
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Vilijam Friedkin
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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.
William Friedkin
The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.
William Friedkin
To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
William Friedkin
Technique is of less interest than character and story.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.
William Friedkin
I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
You are always cheating for the audience.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
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
You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
