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We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.

William Friedkin

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William Friedkin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 29
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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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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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To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
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There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
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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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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
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Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.
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Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.
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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.
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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 really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
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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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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.
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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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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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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 studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.
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'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.
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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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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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