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Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?
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'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.
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Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.
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I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.
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When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.
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I have the infinite galaxy from '2001' as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.
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A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.
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The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.
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When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
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'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
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Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
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I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.
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What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.
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I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.
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There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.
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Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.
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The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.
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I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
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Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.
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Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.
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You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.
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I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.
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What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.
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Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
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I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.
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Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
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Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
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I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.
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Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
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One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.
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