Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma
Brian Russell De Palmais an American film director and screenwriter. He is considered part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth11 September 1940
CountryUnited States of America
sexy fun character
And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
document inspirational moment records
And that's what's so inspirational about something like DIONYSUS. It actually records the moment that it happened. Kind of like a document of the period.
You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.
releasing sort uninspired
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.
dropped explore fairly form order pieces restricted sort
I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.
I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
guess noir reviews straight surprised
I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
exist people research web
You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.
able stuff documentaries
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
moving musical kind
I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue
halloween happy-halloween scary
I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
successful financial bigs
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
character long acting
I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures
corporations information source
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations