Brian De Palma Quotes
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I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.
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I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.
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I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
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And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
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I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.
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You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.
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You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.
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So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
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The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
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I do like directing other people's material.
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Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
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Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.
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Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening.
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I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
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You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.
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I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.
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You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.
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I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.
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I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
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Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.
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That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
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It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow.
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And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.
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But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.