If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not. William Friedkin More Quotes by William Friedkin More Quotes From William Friedkin In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head. William Friedkin exorcist saws film I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it. William Friedkin scene whole The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations. William Friedkin imagination art needs You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background. William Friedkin empty-rooms bullshit actors If you're a movie star, the studios don't want you to act. They just want you to show up and look good and chase girls and have a lot of laughs. William Friedkin girl stars laughing The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking. William Friedkin promotion hype film The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder. William Friedkin want giving looks I have control over every single frame on Blu-ray. If I want a scene bluer, I get that scene bluer. Originally, there was some fluctuation with the prints. If you made a thousand, or a few thousand prints, there is no control over any of that. But now I can make a master using the digital process. William Friedkin digital rays want I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films. William Friedkin sound-and-music cities running When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process. William Friedkin printing rays littles If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today. William Friedkin stars today war 'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films. William Friedkin superhero stars war I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle. William Friedkin squirrels ankles believe I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films. William Friedkin stuff littles watches I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way. William Friedkin superhero sweet way All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up. William Friedkin odds blow country We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it. William Friedkin ambition goal wind The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy. William Friedkin classic-films legacy interest God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority. William Friedkin gay taken people You are always cheating for the audience. William Friedkin audience cheating
