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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.

Brian De Palma

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.
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Difficult Stream Uncomfortable
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
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Inspirational Mistake Motivational
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.
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Soldier Support Vision
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.
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Being Fashion People Truly
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.
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Real School Teaching
However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.
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Quaker School 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
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Bigs Financial Successful
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn’t work in contemporary storytelling because we don’t live in that world anymore
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Noir Numbers Thinking
And we’ve become very doubtful of our information sources, because they’re all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations
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Corporations Information Source
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
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Art Storytelling Trying
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
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Political Thinking Views
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
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Dream Girl Pursue Strong
I mean, I don’t mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it’s going to be used in some way
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Mean Mind Talking
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.
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Honorable Support Television Valued
I’ve been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.
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Country Independent Talking
Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
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Ideas Scary Tourists

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.

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