The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
You never can predict things. I knew the movie Peducted would get a reaction, because it's showing a different vision of our soldiers in… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
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… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
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… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
If anyone's been around some very long cocaine evenings, there's nothing that's in SCARFACE that we all haven't seen before. — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
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… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence. — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
