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I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.
I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.
I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.
It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.
Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.
Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.
Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.
Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.
Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.
One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.
I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."
Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.
The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.
Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.
'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.
I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.
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.
I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.
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.
In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.
We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and they really understand viewer habits.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
'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.
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.
My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.
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.
You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.
There's a crazy, false notion that audiences are not patient or will not watch a story, that you have to put in a scare every ten minutes. But I always thought that was insane.
I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.
I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.
When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence. I want nudity. I want sex and violence mixed together. What's wrong with that? Am I the only one? I don't think so.
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.
I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.
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.
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.
I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.
I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.
When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.
I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.
I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like... ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.
When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'