Brian De Palma on modern movies: "They all look the same"
Mar 26, 2020 21:06:15 GMT
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Post by ck100 on Mar 26, 2020 21:06:15 GMT
Brian De Palma on why he didn't direct "Mission: Impossible II" and how he regards the 1990's as one of the best periods of his Hollywood moviemaking career:
"Stories, they keep making them longer and longer only for economic reasons. After I made Mission: Impossible, Tom [Cruise] asked me to start working on the next one. I said: 'Are you kidding?' One of these is enough. Why would anybody want to make another one? Of course, the reason they make another one is to make money. I was never a movie director to make money, which is the big problem of Hollywood. That's the corruption of Hollywood."
"In my mid-50s doing Carlito's Way and then Mission: Impossible. It doesn't get much better than that. You have all the power and tools at your disposal. When you have the Hollywood system working for you, you can do some remarkable things. But as your movies become less successful, it gets harder to hold on to the power and you have to start making compromises. I don't know if you even realize you're making them... I tend to be very hard-nosed about this. If you have a couple of good decades, that's good, that's great."
movieweb.com/mission-impossible-2-why-brain-de-palma-didnt-direct/?fbclid=IwAR3DZCPaafC_Xl2xqa_QIij0UAHMs-LMQxm0pjNgVmabpsYbKYydTZ-1T1o
"Stories, they keep making them longer and longer only for economic reasons. After I made Mission: Impossible, Tom [Cruise] asked me to start working on the next one. I said: 'Are you kidding?' One of these is enough. Why would anybody want to make another one? Of course, the reason they make another one is to make money. I was never a movie director to make money, which is the big problem of Hollywood. That's the corruption of Hollywood."
"In my mid-50s doing Carlito's Way and then Mission: Impossible. It doesn't get much better than that. You have all the power and tools at your disposal. When you have the Hollywood system working for you, you can do some remarkable things. But as your movies become less successful, it gets harder to hold on to the power and you have to start making compromises. I don't know if you even realize you're making them... I tend to be very hard-nosed about this. If you have a couple of good decades, that's good, that's great."
movieweb.com/mission-impossible-2-why-brain-de-palma-didnt-direct/?fbclid=IwAR3DZCPaafC_Xl2xqa_QIij0UAHMs-LMQxm0pjNgVmabpsYbKYydTZ-1T1o