Brian De Palma Quotes

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• And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

  Brian De Palma

  Sexy, Fun, Character

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• The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

  Brian De Palma

  Lying, Cameras

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Brian De Palma

  Vivid, Violence, Sometimes

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• 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 movies and almost a lost art at this point

  Brian De Palma

  Art, Trying, Storytelling

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• You've got to remind yourself all the time that you're being measured against the fashions of the day, and if your work truly has any kind of staying power, well, people will be talking about it in 20, 30 years.

  Brian De Palma

  Fashion, People, Being Me

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.

  Brian De Palma

  Difficult, Uncomfortable, Streams

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• 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.

  Brian De Palma

  Trying, Kind, Obsession

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I love working with women. I think they're beautiful. I like to photograph them. I like the way they interact. When I was in high school I used to hang out with the girls. When I went to graduate school, I was in an all girls school. So it's something I'm very familiar with and quite fascinated by.

  Brian De Palma

  Beautiful, Girl, School

  Source: collider.com

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• 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 being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time

  Brian De Palma

  Girl, Dream, Strong

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• 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 an idea of what's happening.

  Brian De Palma

  Real, Teaching, School

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage

  Brian De Palma

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow

  Brian De Palma

  Stars, Tomorrow

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.178, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

  Brian De Palma

  Halloween, Happy Halloween, Scary

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

  Brian De Palma

  Corporations, Information, Source

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.186, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

  Brian De Palma

  Listen To Your Heart, Contemporary, Contemporary Music

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way

  Brian De Palma

  Mean, Talking, Mind

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• 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 Iraq. All we ever get told is that they're valued and we support them, and as they're represented on television, they're true-blue and honorable. Which is true, for the most part.

  Brian De Palma

  Support, Soldier, Vision

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everybody doesn't have to have a daughter who's a goodie-two-shoes.

  Brian De Palma

  Daughter, Shoes, Two

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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 enough to capture what's happening

  Brian De Palma

  Shooting, Able, Stuff

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• 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 come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant

  Brian De Palma

  Interesting, France, Brilliant

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

  Brian De Palma

  Ideas, Scary, Tourists

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• 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 system and make a big hit

  Brian De Palma

  Successful, Financial, Bigs

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• But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

  Brian De Palma

  Thinking, Numbers, Noir

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• However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

  Brian De Palma

  School, Years, Twelve

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