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I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.
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'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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If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.
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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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The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
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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 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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Violence is not funny.
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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.
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