William Friedkin Quotes
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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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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Film has to describe and show.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
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I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.
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I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.
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In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.
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The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
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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.
