I'm Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing.

The Untouchables, Casualties of War, the Bonfire of the Vanities, raising cane, carlitos

way, mission impossible.

Brian Dupalma didn't just make all those movies, he made all those movies in a row.

Nobody balances suspense, action, and character better than he does.

Each film is a masterclass in building tension with tracking shots, disconcerting angles,

and split screens, and then he releases that tension with the blunt shock of violence.

In any Dupalma film, the camera is ultimately the star.

Dupalma is the son of a surgeon, and he went to Columbia for physics, but he quickly discovered

where his true passion lay.

You know him as a virtuosic movie director, but before that, he was a fixture of the experimental

Greenwich Village movie scene of the 1960s.

That's where he cast a then unknown actor named Bobby De Niro, fitting since Dupalma later

became known for working with all the greatest actors.

His very first Hollywood movie starred Orson Wells.

Last summer, the Hampton's International Film Festival gave Brian Dupalma the Lifetime

Achievement Award.

I was honored to speak with him in front of a live audience when he came to accept it.

Please welcome Brian Dupalma.

Directing is an unbelievably difficult task.

When did you know you could do that?

This is a long, funny story.

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