William Friedkin Quotes

You know, post-production is a bit of a grind to me. If I'm producing a film, I really... I mean I like editing, but all the other crap, the color mixing and... it's all a grind. And so as a result I cut back producing the number of films I was producing.

There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.

I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.

The color grading in 'Peaky' is a huge, huge element of the show's distinctive style, you know?

Other black and white films have also been released in colour, but 'Hum Dono' is better than all of them. When you watch 'Hum Dono Rangeen,' you will feel as though it was shot in colour; you won't feel that I have got the reels painted by brush.

If you can make a color show or movie seem like it's in black-and-white, then you've done a really good job.

Color correction is one of my things.

Miranda is extremely tacky. I personally want to edit my videos well, but I have to keep Miranda's character in mind, so there are bad angles, flashy cuts, and sparkles everywhere.

With Technicolor restorations, it's about getting the color right.

When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.

My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.

The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.

I don't want to do anything to revisit Freaks and Geeks that isn't awesome.

I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.