Brian De Palma Quotes

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• I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
• It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow
• 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 control…
• That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl…
• 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…
• 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…
• However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years
• But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore
• You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time
• I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue
• I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way
• 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 the…
• 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…
• 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…
• And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations
• The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.
• However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.
• I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.
• I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
• 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…

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