William Friedkin Quotes
The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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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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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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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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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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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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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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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.
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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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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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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 you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.
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When I buy clothes, I like to buy them in outfits so I know they go together. I like a very simple, natural style. I never like to be the attention getter; I like to come under the radar and be cool about my look, very classic and stylish. I'm not into fads.
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I'm a huge horror fan.
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Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.
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The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.
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The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.
