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You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 152 | Rank: 0 | Fav

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: People | Clicks: 166 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Music | Clicks: 154 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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 no sort of objective reporting anymore.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Happiness | Clicks: 153 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Yeah, when I write all the time, the advantage of using the Web is just unbelievable. You know, to find out information.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Time | Clicks: 152 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Idea | Clicks: 146 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Succes | Clicks: 156 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 125 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 148 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Happiness | Clicks: 151 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Human imperfections | Clicks: 191 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Pleasure | Clicks: 158 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Sure, but you learn, if you're going to shoot a straightforward story, that you're going to be shooting a lot of close-ups.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Teaching | Clicks: 143 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 136 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Only in the fact that I was kind of a science wonk in the '50s. You know, won a lot of science fairs, built computers.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Science | Clicks: 159 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It's always great when you discover someone.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Revelation | Clicks: 182 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Revelation | Clicks: 152 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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 when your first requirement is to tell a fairly...

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Character | Clicks: 332 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Country | Clicks: 146 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Brian De Palma (1940) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 164 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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