Friedkin Quotes
Collection of top 32 famous quotes about Friedkin
Friedkin Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Friedkin quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.
— William Friedkin
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
— William Friedkin
I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.
— William Friedkin
I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.
— Jason Patric
Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.
— William Friedkin
You are always cheating for the audience.
— William Friedkin
An infant is born with a clenched fist; a man dies with an open hand. Life has a way of prying free the things we think are so important.
— John C. Maxwell
Violence is not funny.
— William Friedkin
Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
— Linda Blair
And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.
— William Friedkin
To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
— William Friedkin
There are Sutlers everywhere.
— Richard House
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
I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.
— William Friedkin
I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
— William Friedkin
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
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
There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
— William Friedkin
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
Ive never seen a more terrifying film than THE BABADOOK.It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.
— William Friedkin
Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.
— Gene Luen Yang
The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.
— William Friedkin
Every choice forecloses on other choices; each step forward leaves a thousand dead possible universes behind you.
— Ben H. Winters
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
— Simone Weil
I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.
— William Friedkin
Technique is of less interest than character and story.
— William Friedkin
I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.
— William Friedkin
Star Wars gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.
— William Friedkin