Ideas Quote by Brian De Palma

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

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

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

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

— Brian De Palma

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

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

It's always great when you discover someone.

— Brian De Palma

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

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

— Brian De Palma

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

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

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

— Brian De Palma