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It's always great when you discover someone.

It's always great when you discover someone.

Quote by Brian De Palma about revelation, contentment

Only in the fact that I was kind of a science wonk in the...

Only in the fact that I was kind of a science wonk in the '50s. You know, won a lot of science fairs, built computers.

Quote by Brian De Palma about science, computers, contentment

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.

Quote by Brian De Palma about opinion, purity, art, magic

Sure, but you learn, if you're going to shoot a...

Sure, but you learn, if you're going to shoot a straightforward story, that you're going to be shooting a lot of close-ups.

Quote by Brian De Palma about teaching, contentment

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.

Quote by Brian De Palma about pleasure, dream, being, time, contentment

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.

Quote by Brian De Palma about human imperfections, students, mistake, bad luck, bad, good, good luck, people, contentment

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.

Quote by Brian De Palma about happiness, teaching, students, problems, school, idea, film, real estate, people

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.

Quote by Brian De Palma about opinion, career, contentment

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.

Quote by Brian De Palma about contentment, moment, time

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.

Quote by Brian De Palma about success, contentment

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on...

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

Quote by Brian De Palma about idea

Yeah, when I write all the time, the advantage of using...

Yeah, when I write all the time, the advantage of using the Web is just unbelievable. You know, to find out information.

Quote by Brian De Palma about time, contentment

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.

Quote by Brian De Palma about happiness, purpose, couple, things, contentment

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.

Quote by Brian De Palma about music, time, contentment

You know, when people want to get any information, ...

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

Quote by Brian De Palma about research, people, contentment

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes...

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

Quote by Brian De Palma about contentment

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me...

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

EQuote by Estelle Parsons about gifts, contentment

Civilization is the distance man has placed between...

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Quote by Brian Aldiss about civilization, man

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Quote by Brian Aldiss about violence, mind

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Quote by Brian Aldiss about childhood

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