Brian De Palma: My films are fresh

(Cover) - EN Movies - Director Brian De Palma always steers clear of “recreating his last hit.”

The legendary film director who helmed classics such as Carrie, Scarface and Snake Eyes is known for his riveting thrillers.

Brian, who just premiered his newest film Passion starring Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace at the Toronto International Film Festival, never dips into the past for inspiration.

“Well, you don’t want to fall into the rut of recreating your last hit no matter what the genre happens to be. You don’t want to make four Batmans or ten Spidermans just because you can get a huge audience to come see it and make a bit more money that you don’t need,” he told Collider.

“So, I managed to stay away from that basically because I try to go out in different areas and look for different situations, different locations, different types of stories. I try to avoid making the same genre, but of course I have made a few of these. They mostly come out of my student study of Hitchcock and using a lot of the [Alfred] Hitchcock story forms and grammar in the 70s to learn how to do this.”