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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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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 studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.
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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
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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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I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
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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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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.
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.
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Violence is not funny.
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You are always cheating for the audience.
William Friedkin
But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never.
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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.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
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 believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
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.
William Friedkin
I have control over every single frame on Blu-ray. If I want a scene bluer, I get that scene bluer. Originally, there was some fluctuation with the prints. If you made a thousand, or a few thousand prints, there is no control over any of that. But now I can make a master using the digital process.
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
If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.
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