Episode 684 - William Friedkin

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2016

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Summary

Director William Friedkin is a consummate storyteller, which explains why he tells such an entertaining story of his own life, rooted in three recurring themes: faith, fate, and film. Within that story, William tells Marc about the making of The French Connection and The Exorcist, the failure and resurgence of his film Sorcerer, and his reasons for never wanting to do a second take.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.6	How are you?
0:11.6	What the fuckers?
0:12.6	What the fuck buddies?
0:13.6	What the fucking ears?
0:14.6	What the fuck a hole is?
0:15.6	What's happening?
0:16.6	I'm Mark Marin.
0:17.6	This is my show.
0:18.6	My podcast, WTF.
0:19.6	Welcome to it.
0:20.6	Thank you for joining me.
0:22.4	If you are new to the show or if you're not, you've picked a hell of a day.
0:26.4	My guest is the film director William Friedkin, who I was ecstatic to talk to.
0:34.2	I had made this guy was a mythic being in my head.
0:38.6	I don't know when you saw the French connection or the exorcist.
0:42.4	I don't know when you saw either of those movies.
0:45.3	But when I saw the French connection, I think I saw when it opened.
0:50.0	Somehow or another, maybe my parents took me to an R-rated movie.
0:53.4	Would they have done that?
0:55.2	Yes.
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