The king

Bunnymen glory era!

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Would love a Sorcerer documentary

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God i wish there were still bands like this around now…

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This guy was a genius, so inteligent and funny. I love his personality more than any other director (maybe except Orson Welles).

Actors are like this at every level. I worked at mom n pop Rennaissance Faires for a few years and you wouldn't believe the hard time some of the actors would give directors about their characters. We couldn't even go out for pizza they wouldn't stop arguing and just do their job.

Billy Friedkin was a genius

Hilarious!

If I were to add something to this discussion, I'll give here my point of view. I got interested in screenwriting at 14 (I'm nearly 21 now), and I never knew anything about writing stories, nor how to get ideas. Learning film and screenwriting theory on KZbin and internet have helped me fins my path in life and made me want to pursue this in college. But now, I get ideas, and I brainstorm, but I'm in college in order to learn the technique. So, film school is necessary, and I find it necessary to learn more about filmmaking. - Mateo, from France

Imagine him on the set of The Exorcist - Ok Satan you come in the door.........

Disrespectful story.

I believe it was for Marathon Man where Dustin Hoffman was telling Lawrence Olivier that he was up all night trying to get into character and Olivier said; why don’t you try acting my boy ? It’s so much easier.😂

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Absolute gibberish from the lady

...As a really big fan (I have all the CDs) I have to say that the music is still great, but unfortunately Lene doesn't sing rhythmically at times! Also, unfortunately, the sound is no longer as captivating and atmospheric as it used to be. - But at least I have her CDs - I can really enjoy them...

Absolute genius, could listen to him talk all day.

😂😅😂 I had no idea the director of the exorcist was such a great story teller !!! 😅

Good live

Now I wanna know how Christopher Nolan deals with Method actors considering he's like the great attractor for them.

"Make stuff up?" That's called "writing" and that is not what I'm paid to do.

Funny thing is though, and I say this as a fan of a lot of Tommy Lee Jones roles, Del Toro is a far more versatile actor. So while TLJ may be easier to work with in some regards you're limited to what roles he can convincingly handle vs someone like Del Toro who can take on almost any character and make it work. So there is a method to the madness that is method acting but only for those who are actual method actors and not wannabe hacks like Jared Leto for instance.

Wonderful. Did not give a shit

Desi Arnaz was sometimes told he couldn’t do something merely because it had not been previously done. “So what,” was his response, according to some staff who worked with him. There’s too much rigid thinking in too many professions. Invention, innovation, creativity and originality requires independence from random and meaningless rules, parameters and structures.

It's good audience didn't mentioned Pacino. Otherwise it would have turned into a roast

The Movie those two actors (TLJ & Benicio Del Torrro ) were in together was the Hunted

TLJ would be brilliant. He went to Yale

I bet Joaquin would make Friedkin angry

I’ve always thought that it was kind of funny that the New York Film School is in Burbank.

Shirley Temple was bigger than either of these 😅

William Friedkin has no time for your bullshit

Wow- I've read he was terrible to actors. What an unimaginative dick.

He's right. Getting caught up in analyzing characters creates busy work to fill class time because many professors can't think of anything else to do. It is also a way to seem more deep and intelligent.

Would have been funny if he hadn't called people out by name.

Fucking love friedkin! Even if he's an asshole, at least he is real.

he knew what the job was ,make your day ,don’t go too much over budget. and make whoever hired you look good. Keep it simple stupid.

That is how you tell a story.

Excellent.

David Dortort, the producer of Bonanza, said something similar. Occasionally, actors would demand explanations and rewrites. To appease them, Dortort would go through the motions and discussions, and often end up right back at the original lines. “I gave him a cookie and he went away,” Don Rickles might have said.

Brilliant! : )

and the award for Best Answer goes to...

In the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back to School", Rodney played a rich man going back to college. There was a gag, where he hired Kurt Vonnegut to write a paper about his own books. The teacher says, "Whoever did write [that paper] doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut." The academics analyzing books and movies and art get so enthralled with their web of syllogisms that they can't be bothered to pay attention to what it is they're actually talking about. Kudos to you, Mr Herzog.

Well, isn't Werner a documentarian by and large, at least in terms of his chief accolades? I love docu, I love expressionism, I love films with significant character depth -- maybe Werner is right that the rote Hollywood 3 act formula is a bit boring / overdone, but I'm not sure I'm ready to take the leap with him into celebrating flat characters -- in fact, I don't really even see the connect between his first statement and his second one. I feel like he had me, then he tried to drag me along with him into the fallacy of the non-sequitur. Boogie Nights was a masterful film, and therefore, rub my feet for one hour. (okay, dude, slow your roll)

Couldn’t disagree more. The man is very talented but his methods are most definitely not something most people can replicate.

Awesome cover.

I think Method Acting has it's uses. It allows Some Actors to Create Characters (Tones, Mannerisms, etc.) for The Role.

This completely applies to acting as well. There's an obsession with script analysis, as if that directly correlated to a better performance. I think it's because it gives us the illusion of doing important, difficult work. But at the end of the day, analysing and performing are two completely different things-a bad actor can spend his entire life studying a character and will still give a mediocre performance.