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'Purple Rain' is probably the best soundtrack.
I used to drive a convertible around L.A. a lot.
Zombies have always had a lot of built-in social commentary.
I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.
Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.
On '50/50,' even though it was 8 million dollars, it was all acting-intensive.
In rehearsals, I like to create an honest environment that is kinda free and fun.
As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.
To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.
I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.
For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like.
I like a pretty relaxed, fun set. Everyone knows they can bring whoever they want and hang out.
I have a lot of friends with bad taste in music - some might say that I have bad taste in music.
I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.
I don't often watch something I've done on TV. Usually, I'll change the channel and watch something else.
After 'Mandy Lane,' I didn't really know what to do because I didn't know anyone who'd made a feature yet.
I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.
I love Jamaica so much. I've been there so much, and I think it would be great if we could shoot a movie there.
I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.
For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.
It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another.
I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that.
As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.
I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies.
I'm always walking around with headphones on, creating my own soundtracks to whatever the day is. I think I have a poppy sensibility.
Do I wish I was Martin Scorsese? Yeah. But am I really proud of the movies I've made and really happy that I get to keep making them? Yes.
I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.
I was intimidated by Malkovich for, like, a couple of days, and then I wasn't. He's awesome. He's so cool. He was so wonderful to work with.
For me, I just value my friendships so much. I mean, I love my family, too, but my friends - I have a really special connection with my friends.
There's so often - in filmmaking, you're backed into something that already has these set parameters, whether it's a sequel or a book that people love.
I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.
I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we sold it to Harvey Weinstein for a lot of money.
I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?
I definitely think New York is a very, very vibrant, wonderful city, but I certainly, of course, can't help but miss a lot of the stuff that's no longer there.
My first real television-watching experience was when I watched 'L.A. Law,' like, at 10 o'clock Thursday nights with my parents. They would let me stay up late.
I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror movies are a great way to go.
I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.
I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary.
I like to branch out as much as I can, but I feel like the movies that are closest to my heart are 'The Wackness' and '50/50' - the ones that are dramedies that have that human element to them.
I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.
I really like using genre to tell a story about characters but also use it as a Trojan horse to tell social or cultural commentary. That's where the best stuff, especially in the zombie genre, comes out of.
'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.
I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies.
I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.
As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.
There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can't tell my family, just as far as how I'm feeling about things. My friends know me the best in a certain way. I just think old friends are really, really important.
The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.
That's the great thing about being a director. You have your list of things you have to worry about and things you don't have to worry about. If you can hire someone or cast someone who equates to not having to worry about, it's great!
I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.