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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
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Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.
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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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There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
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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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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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Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.
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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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I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
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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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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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