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Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.
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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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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God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.
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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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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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You are always cheating for the audience.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
William Friedkin
All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.
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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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Violence is not funny.
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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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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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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
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.
William Friedkin
The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.
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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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