William Friedkin Quotes - Page 2

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• The only gay people who remain in the closet are those who choose to, who don't want to publicly declare their sexuality, which is true of heterosexual people as well. I don't walk around with a button or a T-shirt that says "I am a heterosexual." I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely. Although God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

  William Friedkin

  Taken, Gay, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• If you're a movie star, the studios don't want you to act. They just want you to show up and look good and chase girls and have a lot of laughs.

  William Friedkin

  Girl, Stars, Laughing

  Source: collider.com

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• If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Disbelief, Referring

  Interview with The A.V. Club, film.avclub.com. September 9, 2007.

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• 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.

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• I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.

  William Friedkin

  Thinking, Views, People

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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• You are always cheating for the audience.

  William Friedkin

  Cheating, Audience

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. December 4, 2008.

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• 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

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• None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing you have to do is see it in your mind's eye. You have to envision it. Imagine someone knitting a sweater or a scarf. They either have a pattern in front of them, or they see a pattern in their mind's eye. Then it's one stitch at a time. That's what shooting a chase is like.

  William Friedkin

  Eye, Knitting, Sweaters

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

  William Friedkin

  Taken, Gay, People

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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• I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.

  William Friedkin

  Movie, Sex, Thinking

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• Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original.

  William Friedkin

  Today, Sequels, Originals

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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 what is original to you.

  William Friedkin

  School, Ideas, Want

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• You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

  William Friedkin

  Empty Rooms, Bullshit, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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

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• 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.

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• I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Thinking, Wind

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Says No to The Exorcist in 3D". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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• When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.

  William Friedkin

  Rays, Littles, Printing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I have control over every single frame on Blu-ray. If I want a scene bluer, I get that scene bluer. Originally, there was some fluctuation with the prints. If you made a thousand, or a few thousand prints, there is no control over any of that. But now I can make a master using the digital process.

  William Friedkin

  Rays, Want, Digital

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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

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• Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.

  William Friedkin

  Running, Thinking, Media

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Says No to The Exorcist in 3D". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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