Top 29 Quotes by Brian De Palma

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

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.

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.