Brian De Palma Quotes
"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
(Related: Mistake, People, Acting, Direction, Friends)
"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
(Related: People, Idea, Film, School, Students, Teaching, Trouble)
"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
(Related: Career)
"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
(Related: Time, Control)
"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
(Related: Success, Successful, Financial)
"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
(Related: Idea, Tourists)
"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
"You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: Music, Time)
"You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: People, Information, Research, Want, Will)
"You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly."
- Brian De Palma
"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
(Related: Art, Movies)
"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."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: Dream)
"However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: Time, School)
"I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: Country, Talking, Traveling, Years)
"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
"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
(Related: Mind, Press, Talking)
"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
(Related: Idea, Fun)
"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
(Related: Time, Character, Acting, Comedy)
"It's always great when you discover someone."
- Brian De Palma
"I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films."
- Brian De Palma
"I do like directing other people's material."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: People)
"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
(Related: Work, World)
"And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: Corporations, Information)
"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: School, Years)
"It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: Tomorrow)
"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
(Related: Film, France, Press)
"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 straightforward story."
- Brian De Palma
(Related: Character, Values, First, Order)