William Friedkin Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.

  William Friedkin

  Scare, Film, Hell

  "William Friedkin on why he is beating the drum for 'The Babadook'" by Richard Rushfield, December 9, 2014.

• 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 was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Directors, Complaining

• 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 how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

  William Friedkin

  Wall, Character, Alternatives

• The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

  William Friedkin

  Hype, Film, Promotion

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Revisits To Live and Die in L.A. on Blu-ray". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

• You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.

  William Friedkin

  Antiques, Want, Painting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Squirrels, Ankles

  "Inside the Forgotten Movie Masterpiece 'Sorcerer'". Interview with Bryan Reesman, www.esquire.com. April 30, 2014.

• I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.

  William Friedkin

  Looks, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view it as a film about the mysteries of faith. It's easier for people to call it a horror film. Or a great horror film. Or the greatest horror film ever made. Whenever I see that, I feel a great distance from it.

  William Friedkin

  Distance, Views, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films.

  William Friedkin

  Watches, Littles, Stuff

  "Inside the Forgotten Movie Masterpiece Sorcerer". Interview with Bryan Reesman, www.esquire.com. April 30, 2014.

• There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and see over and over again, are not my own.

  William Friedkin

  Watches, Littles, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

  William Friedkin

  Evil, Lines, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.

  William Friedkin

  Sweet, Superhero, Way

  "Inside the Forgotten Movie Masterpiece Sorcerer". Interview with Bryan Reesman, www.esquire.com. April 30, 2014.

• I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.

  William Friedkin

  Running, Sound And Music, Cities

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Revisits To Live and Die in L.A. on Blu-ray". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

• The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Hero, Evil

  Interview with The A.V. Club, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.

• We were just trying to make the films that we could get made, and to push the envelope. We didn't realize how far we had pushed the envelope. That all came later. That all came from books and articles about the golden age of the '70s. Believe me, to a lot of us, it was no golden age. The studio heads were very powerful then. They would fire guys right and left. They would look at your dailies and tell you what was wrong with them... a lot of stuff that doesn't go on today. Young filmmakers who are successful today, they don't often have that to put up with.

  William Friedkin

  Powerful, Believe, Book

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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 what is original to you.

  William Friedkin

  School, Ideas, Want

• With all of my films that are on DVD and Blu-ray, I have spent weeks with them in a color timing room. Just changing or enhancing them. I have been desaturating the color. Sometimes I will make a scene bluer or redder. I do use the new medium. I believe in it.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Dvds, Color

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.

  William Friedkin

  Legacy, Classic Films, Interest

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.

• There are certain things that happen during the production of, I think, every film, that you didn't plan, and often it's better than what you did plan. There's the question of either going with it or not.

  William Friedkin

  Thinking, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

• The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

  William Friedkin

  Giving, Looks, Want

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Even with some of the best action films like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.

  William Friedkin

  Thinking, Action, Computer

  "Inside the Forgotten Movie Masterpiece 'Sorcerer'". Interview with Bryan Reesman, www.esquire.com. April 30, 2014.

• I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved by a scintilla in 3D. To me, it's just a gimmick.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Gimmicks, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.

  William Friedkin

  Stars, War, Forever

  "Inside the Forgotten Movie Masterpiece Sorcerer". Interview with Bryan Reesman, www.esquire.com. April 30, 2014.

• There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

  William Friedkin

  People, Dollars, Film

  Source: www.pbs.org

• In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

  William Friedkin

  Saws, Film, Exorcist

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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