Brian De Palma Quotes
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
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'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
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Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.
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What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.
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It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
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Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.
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The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.
