William Friedkin Quotes
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Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It…
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Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would do itIt's problematical.…
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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 date…
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The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create.…
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Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing…
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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
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Violence is not funny.
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The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's…
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I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of…
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And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.
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One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't…
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Ive never seen a more terrifying film than THE BABADOOK.It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.
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To me, film right now is dormant. It's a sleeping giant. It's the plaything of corporations. The people who determine what American film is today…
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And…
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