From "Brian De Palma: The New Hitchcock or Just Another Rip-Off", ROLLING STONE, October 16, 1980:
"I can tell a story in visual images probably better than anybody. My weakness is that I've never done a great character story. I should probably direct somebody else's material if I am going to grow as a director. I can direct actors well. But I'm usually so involved in the visual storytelling that the slow rising and falling of the characters' relationships just doesn't interest me. But it should. I should do it."
The "other material" was CARLITO'S WAY, by David Koepp. But since then, and until he retires or dies, he's pretty much the guy described above, which is why I consider him the greatest living today, and why most folks hate his pictures. He's a formalist with (declining) studio cachet.
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