Brian De Palma Quotes
30 Brian De Palma quotes:
"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years."
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"I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films."
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"I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue."
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"You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore."
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"And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations."
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"I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features."
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"I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie."
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"I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story."
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"It's always great when you discover someone."
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"So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point."
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"Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films."
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"Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists."
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"Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant."
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"I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way."
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"The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening."
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"And that's what's so inspirational about something like DIONYSUS. It actually records the moment that it happened. Kind of like a document of the period."
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"But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore."
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"I do like directing other people's material."
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"I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures."
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"I was thinking of doing something - I'm always sort of fascinated, you know, I have a fascination with watching these kids on MTV videos."
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