William Friedkin Quotes
I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
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I like risky stuff.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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Film is anti-language.
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Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.
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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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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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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.
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Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?
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All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and started looking at what was available - I obviously couldn't play Gloria; I couldn't play Claire. When I saw the character of Cam, I was like, 'I have to have a shot at this,' because I thought it was a character that would be really fun to play.
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I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films.
