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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.
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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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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I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
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Violence is not funny.
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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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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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God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.
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I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.
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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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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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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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'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.
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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 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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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 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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There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
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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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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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