William Friedkin Quotes
I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.
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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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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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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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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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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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I love to work, and to make all kinds of work. But if I work on a fashion story then I work for somebody. If I work for me, for an art project, then I'm not that nervous. It doesn't matter when the photo is done. And if I work on a fashion shoot, then I have access to all these things that I can use later for my art - a still life here or there. I can do all of this while the model is changing.
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I have like 10 actors and 100 aliens in the film Valerian. And they come from the four corners of the universe. Some of them are liquid. Some of them are just so visually crazy.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
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Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.
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I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.
