I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Even with some of the best action films like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which is a great action film with a great chase… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
With all of my films that are on DVD and Blu-ray, I have spent weeks with them in a color timing room.… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional -… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
There are certain things that happen during the production of, I think, every film, that you didn't plan, and often it's better… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
To me, film right now is dormant. It's a sleeping giant. It's the plaything of corporations. The people who determine what American… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
We were just trying to make the films that we could get made, and to push the envelope. We didn't realize how… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail. — William Friedkin Copy Share
All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And… — William Friedkin Copy Share
None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing you have… — William Friedkin Copy Share
I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it. — William Friedkin Copy Share
The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense… — William Friedkin Copy Share
I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to… — William Friedkin Copy Share
There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and… — William Friedkin Copy Share
If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today. — William Friedkin Copy Share
I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist. — William Friedkin Copy Share
I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved by a… — William Friedkin Copy Share
But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the… — William Friedkin Copy Share
God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority. — William Friedkin Copy Share
I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in… — William Friedkin Copy Share
The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm… — William Friedkin Copy Share
