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Brian De Palma, born on September 11, 1940, is a renowned American film director. Known for his intense narrative style and unique visual approach, his works include classics such as 'Psycho', 'Scarface', and the 'Mission: Impossible' series.

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“Flying all over the world sounds exciting and there are ways in which it definitely is-Milan for dinner! London for lunch! It gets routine after a time,but in a comfortable, soothing way that Jenny has come to like.”

Reality Of Life Tourism Travelling The World

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“I do like directing other people's material.”

People Materials

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

Sometimes Cases Violence Colour Strongest Vivid Palette

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“do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage”

Thinking Way Political Views Hell Stage Best Way Political View

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

Two Daughter Shoes

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“I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.”

Feels Difficult Uncomfortable Streams

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“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.”

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“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.”

Different Vision Support Soldier Honorable

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“You've got to remind yourself all the time that you're being measured against the fashions of the day, and if your work truly has any kind of staying power, well, people will be talking about it in 20, 30 years.”

People Kind Fashion Being Me

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“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.”

Ideas Character Fun Dangerous Sexy Manipulative Femme Femme Fatale

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

Kind Ideas Yeah Scary Murderer Prey Tourists Serials

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“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.”

People Giving Ideas Real School Film Trouble Teaching Students Industry Happenings Film School

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“I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.”

Film Scary Halloween Happy Halloween

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

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“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”

Wells Enough Moments Able Stuff Happenings Shooting Capture Documentaries

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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”

Knows Feels Kind Dream Fall Girl Strong Stuff All Kinds Guilty Very Strong Our Dreams Pursued Noir Archetype Recurring Recurring Dreams

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“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”

People Knows Inspirational Motivational Film Acting Mistake Students Directors Casts Filmmaker Biggest Mistake Movie Director Good Acting

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“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”

Film Interesting Presses Brilliant France Conferences Most Interesting Interesting Things Press Conferences

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

Years School Twelve Baptized Quaker Presbyterians

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

Thinking World Numbers Contemporary Storytelling Traditional Noir

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“You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time”

Knows Contemporary Listen To Your Heart Contemporary Music

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

Kind Moving Musical Entity Venues Motion Pictures

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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”

Ifs Way Mind Mean Used Talking Presses Promoting

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“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 Successful Financial Moderates Financial Success

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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”

Trying Art Lost Pure Aspect Exciting Storytelling Visuals Lost Art Visual Storytelling

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“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”

Long Done Character Acting Comedy Long Time Good Character Ensemble

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

Information Huge Source Corporations Controlled Doubtful

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“The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.”

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

School My Time Quaker

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

Years Country Talking Ten Independent Features

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“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.”

Trying Kind Materials Obsession Storytelling Obsessed Visuals Visual Storytelling

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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.”

Thinking Knows Lasts Happened Couple Decades Objectives Amazed Objectivity

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About the Author

Born: September 11, 1940
Known for: Film director
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