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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.
William Friedkin
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William Friedkin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 29
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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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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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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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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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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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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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The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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You are always cheating for the audience.
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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
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I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams.
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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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