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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

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
I’ve been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.
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Country Independent Talking
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
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
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
It’s always great to discover a new star of tomorrow
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Discover Stars Tomorrow
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
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
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 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
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
I don’t see scary films. I certainly wouldn’t go see my films.
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Happy Halloween Scary
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
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

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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