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 admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
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Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.
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Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.
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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.
