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Top 25 Brian De Palma Quotes (2025 Update)

Brian De Palma Quote: “I have swum against the stream all my life. It’s not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.”

1. “I have swum against the stream all my life. It’s not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “And we’ve become very doubtful of our information sources, because they’re all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.”

2. “And we’ve become very doubtful of our information sources, because they’re all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “You know it’s always amazed me – I think the most startling thing that’s happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.”

3. “You know it’s always amazed me – I think the most startling thing that’s happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn’t work in contemporary storytelling because we don’t live in that world anymore.”

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

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Brian De Palma Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “It’s always great to discover a new star of tomorrow.”

7. “It’s always great to discover a new star of tomorrow.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “I love working with women. I think they’re beautiful. I like to photograph them. I like the way they interact. When I was in high school I used to hang out with the girls. When I went to graduate school, I was in an all girls school. So it’s something I’m very familiar with and quite fascinated by.”

9. “I love working with women. I think they’re beautiful. I like to photograph them. I like the way they interact. When I was in high school I used to hang out with the girls. When I went to graduate school, I was in an all girls school. So it’s something I’m very familiar with and quite fascinated by.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.”

10. “You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.”

11. “I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he’s so brilliant.”

12. “Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he’s so brilliant.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “I’ve been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.”

13. “I’ve been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.”

15. “However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.”

18. “However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “I’m always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.”

19. “I’m always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “I don’t see scary films. I certainly wouldn’t go see my films.”

21. “I don’t see scary films. I certainly wouldn’t go see my films.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.”

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

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Brian De Palma Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “Everybody doesn’t have to have a daughter who’s a goodie-two-shoes.”

25. “Everybody doesn’t have to have a daughter who’s a goodie-two-shoes.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “I do like directing other people’s material.”

26. “I do like directing other people’s material.”

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Brian De Palma Quote: “I mean, I don’t mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it’s going to be used in some way.”

27. “I mean, I don’t mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it’s going to be used in some way.”

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