72 Quotes by Brian De Palma

I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

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

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

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.

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

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

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

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.