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Brian De Palma Biography

Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is considered part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.

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I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way

Mean, Mind, Promoting, Talking, Way

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

Character, Long, Acting, Good, Pictures

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

Actually, Badly, Films, Inspirational, Mistake, Motivational

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

Corporations, Information, Source, Multilateral, Sources

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.

Allows, Explore, Kind, Obsession, Storytelling, Trying

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

Anymore, Noir, Numbers, Storytelling, Think, Thinking

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

Dream, Girl, Recurring, Strong

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

Contemporary, Contemporary Music, Know, Listen To Your Heart, Music, Time

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.

Couple, Thinking, Objectivity, Happened, Sort, Know

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

Palette, Sometimes, Violence, Vivid

I love working with women. I think they're beautiful. I like to photograph them. I like the way they interact. When I was in high school I used to hang out with the girls. When I went to graduate school, I was in an all girls school. So it's something I'm very familiar with and quite fascinated by.

Beautiful, Fascinated, Girl, Love, School, Women

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

Bigs, Financial, Make, Movie, Success, Successful

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

Apparently, Brilliant, France, Godard, Interesting

Everybody doesn't have to have a daughter who's a goodie-two-shoes.

Daughter, Shoes, Two, Everybody

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

Art, Aspects, Exciting, Storytelling, Trying

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

My Time, Quaker, School, Spent, Time

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

Ideas, Make, Movie, Murderer, Scary, Tourists

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

Able, Enough, Like, Shooting, Stuff

I do like directing other people's material.

People, Materials, Directing, Like, Material

You never can predict things. I knew the movie Peducted would get a reaction, because it's showing a different vision of our soldiers in Iraq. All we ever get told is that they're valued and we support them, and as they're represented on television, they're true-blue and honorable. Which is true, for the most part.

Movie, Soldier, Soldiers, Support, True, Vision

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