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I just go with what excites me.
I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.
This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!
Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.
It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.
It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.
I've always said I'm less interested in twists as I am about escalation.
The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.
You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is.
As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is.
You don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view.
Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.
A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is.
I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work.
Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.
It's not like vampires are inherently bad. It's just people need to make better vampire movies.
I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.
I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.
That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.
If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one.
I love cult movies. I probably have watched 'Big Trouble In Little China' more than anyone on the planet.
When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.
Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.
The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.
I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.
We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!
Truth is, I don't like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them.
Like everyone else, I love 'Born Again:' that was a seminal work for me. Everything Frank Miller did on 'Daredevil' is like the Bible.
We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.
In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.
I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.
I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.
Some of our best episodes of 'Buffy' were written over a weekend. You can really get in touch with your creative spirit when you're at your most desperate.
I love TV. I've been lucky that I get to do both, and both have things I love about them, features and TV. I hope I get to do both for the rest of my career.
When you're talking about who is doing the most exciting and interesting horror films of the last 20 years, it's Japan. I mean, they are making amazing films.
The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.
Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.
There will be a Skype movie soon... someone will crack the code, and it will be great. Then, there'll be 30 Skype movies, and we'll be like, 'Oh, that's boring.'
I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.
That's the fun part about being a director. You get to say, 'Oh, now that I'm in charge, I can try and cast whoever I want.' They can always say no, but that's okay.
I think 'The Thing' is so good because it's not just a scary movie. It's also social commentary, which works on multiple levels, which is something I really respond to.
I had one of those families that let me watch things they should not have let me watch. When I was a kid, I remember I watched 'Alien' at, like, 6. It was traumatizing.
When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation, no matter how absurd the situation is.
Certainly, 3rd acts of any movie are hard. It's always hard to have something that will give you the promises from the beginning of the movie. That's true for all movies.
Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.
I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.
I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film.
What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that sparks an idea or suggests something strange.
I love superheroes and I love weird horror films... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.