Quotes by Brian De Palma

About Brian De Palma:

Brian Russell De Palma is an American film director and screenwriter. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.
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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.

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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

It's always great when you discover someone.

Brian De Palma

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

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 movie as in my earlier pictures.

Brian De Palma

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

I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

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 of making and releasing films.

Brian De Palma

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

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

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

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.

Brian De Palma

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

Brian De Palma

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

Brian De Palma

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.

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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.

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

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

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 an idea of what's happening.

Brian De Palma

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

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Author Bio

  • NameBrian De Palma
  • DescriptionAmerican film director and screenwriter
  • BornSeptember 11, 1940
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer