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Director William Friedkin on Rising and Falling and Rising in the Film Industry
His thoughts on The Exorcist, Sorcerer, Cruising, Killer Joe, and more.
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His thoughts on The Exorcist, Sorcerer, Cruising, Killer Joe, and more.
Hill: "I’ve read The Dead Zone, like, twenty times."
"That’s your decision to spend the rest of your life with somebody. Why should all of your friends then have to jump through hoops?"
"The weirdest thing is having to make, like, sex noises."
"I’m going to hit you right in the face with this!"
"Why would I be excited about it? You and I both know that it did not go well."
"It’s considered a masterpiece, the book, so the comparison would be hard."
"Tweets can seem frivolous and demeaning to the art of writing, and I feel embarrassed by them."
Get a glimpse at Glaser's future as the improv king of Cancun.
“I’m in this anxious place, but I’m afraid this will be the best thing I ever do. I think it will be. That it might be over is sad.”
"I think all of our favorite moments have to do with our own humiliation."
"I think the first fully naked woman I saw, I was repossessing her couch."
Checking in a year after he came out on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast.
"There's some kind of Obama-Lincoln connection, so that's the one you vote for when you can't decide."
Also, what's next for the series.
Also, what he really thinks of recappers.
Figuratively speaking.
“I don’t know why they bother to call it country. Why don’t they just call it a song and leave it at that?
"I’m too competitive — too crazily competitive — to play anything."
"I just went berserk. (A) I was tired. (B) It was a child that was interviewing me."