A biography for Brian De Palmahasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.”
“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.”
“However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.”
“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.”
“I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.”
“And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.”
“I do like directing other people's material.”