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Brian De Palma

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


— Brian De Palma


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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.


— Brian De Palma


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


— Brian De Palma


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


— Brian De Palma


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It's always great when you discover someone.


— Brian De Palma


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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.


— Brian De Palma


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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.


— Brian De Palma


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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.


— Brian De Palma


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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.


— Brian De Palma


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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.


— Brian De Palma


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Of these films The Bonfire of the Vanities would be De Palma's biggest box office disaster losing millions. The film is often considered the first to deal explicitly with the draft. We also can note with great irony just whom De Palma claims is being attacked.

Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter. In a career spanning over 40 years he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films including such box office successes as the horror film Carrie Dressed to Kill Scarface The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible.

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