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Brian De Palma Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: September 11, 1940

Topics

Looking Picture New Kind Always

I think, at the end of the day, you have to live a truthful life and be true to yourself. You have one life, and everything has to fall into place around that.

Life Live Day Yourself Think End

You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish.

Life Success Yourself Fish You Find

I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.

I Can Independent More Low Used Any

Howard University shocked me into realizing how desperately sick the Negro could be, how he could be led into self-destruction, and how he would not realize that it was the society that had forced him into a great sickness.

Great Me Society Sick Sickness Him

I wanted to make an artwork that really underlined the contradiction between how machines see and how humans see. Because music is so affective and is just as corporeal as it is cerebral, I thought coupling a music performance with machine vision adds up to something that work on an emotional, aesthetic, and intellectual level.

Work Music Vision Performance See

And if you had an, an opportunity to have a hot meal, you did. That was the cook. But you didn't stop and say, This is dinnertime and Oh wait it's five o'clock, it's time to eat for supper.

Opportunity Time Wait You Stop Say

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

Brian Ferneyhough

Respect Achievement I Am Doubt You

My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

Today Truth Tomorrow Finding Wrong

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

Homeless Paycheck Out Away Being

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.

Life World My Life Want Movies Out

Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure.

Car Daily Adventure Me Think Worry

Strange thing, this television.

Television Strange Thing

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