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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.
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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If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.
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I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.
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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 digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.
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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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And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.
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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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God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.
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Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.
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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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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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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.
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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 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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I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.
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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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You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? Oh, we will always need actors. Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.
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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.
William Friedkin
There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
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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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