Brian De Palma — American Director born on September 11, 1940,

Brian Russell De Palma is an American film director and screenwriter. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking... (wikipedia)

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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 don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.