Quotes by Oren Peli - Page 1

Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Geek
Knows
Nerd
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The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Activity
Enjoy
Paranormal
People
People More Know
People Know More
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Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Borrowing
Matter
Originals
Original
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Not knowing the thing that’s chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you
Oren Peli / Film Director
Chasing
Knowing
Seeing
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Chasing
Not Knowing
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Balance
Findings
Stories
Always Your Keep
Answering
Finding
New Ones
Right Balance
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I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Fun
Horror
Mind
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Paranormal
Software
Trade
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
Oren Peli / Film Director
Activity
Paranormal
Software
Programmer
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I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Ipods
Thinking
Would Be
The One Thing
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Being Alone
Challenges
Kind
Luck
Challenge
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'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Activity
Exposure
Filmmaking
Little Help
Paranormal
Unique
Project
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I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Cds
Dvds
Hbo
Internet
Radio
Showtime
Buy
Hardly
Off
Record
Stream
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Demon
Exorcist
Ghost
Watches
Watched
Demons
Ghosts
Refused
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I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Architecture
Apples
Facts
Locked
Products
Apple
Owned
Pcs
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Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines - so I think that's always going to be something I like.
Oren Peli / Film Director
People
Reading
Thinking
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Attention
Box Office
Office
Waiting
Me New Know
Box
Wait
Interpret
Ratings
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I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Fairly
Rush
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There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'
Oren Peli / Film Director
Comment
Fire
Giving
Misinformation
People
Proportion
Fires
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The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Activity
Paranormal
Event
Released
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I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Different
Exploring
Filmmaking
Fun
Writing
Aspects
Next Thing
Producing
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I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Activity
Bonus
Considering
Enormous
Lucky
Paranormal
Successful
Extremely
Released
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I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Body
Explanation
Thinking
Traditional
Trying
Bodies
Demons
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In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Imagination
Anticipation
Anxiety
Cases
Effective
Happening
Shown
Worse
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Advantage
Definite
Disbelief
Real
Style
Suspension
Way
Sell
Helps
Unknowns
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I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Believe
Faster
Motivated
Want
Way
Myself Believe I Believe
Myself Believe Better
Institutionalized
Opposed
Standard
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The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Continental
Size
Unexplored
Ecosystem
Mostly
Scares
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I don't know. I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.
Oren Peli / Film Director
People
Thinking
Tvs
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Answers
Bizarre
Fascinating
Mysterious
Unknown
Buff
Specifically
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn’t really scare me. I’d say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don’t know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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Scare
Skins
Wall
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
Oren Peli / Film Director
Scare
Shocking
Wall
Unknown
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Usually I don't find gore or slasher films scary. What works for me is the slower build where you are tightening the noose around the situation until you are running out of options and then really have no idea what to do.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Running
Ideas
Scary
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I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Balance
Character
Compelling
Drama
Horror
Thinking
Tricky
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Activity
Announcing
Firsts
Gains
Paranormal
World
Co-Workers
Gain
Just Kind
Neighbors
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Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Crazy
Degrees
People
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Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.'
Oren Peli / Film Director
Activity
Diaries
Mundane
Nutty
Paranormal
Relate
Degree
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Angle
Attention
Chaos
Deliberate
Format
Advantages
Badly
Camera
Composed
Footage
Frames
Paying
Supposed
Throws
Weirdest
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Really it's always things that scare me like loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen... Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.
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Loss
Roots
Scary
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In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.
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War
Europe
Years
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Mysterious
Scary
Understood
Against
Defend
Demons
Ghosts
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I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Character
Dirty
Filmmaking
Thinking
Budget
Connect
Gritty
Raw
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Activity
Advantage
Crew
Paranormal
Productions
Projects
Family Work Experience
Scale
Great Experience
Small Scale
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Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what’s missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that’s why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.
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Giving
People
Thinking
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Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.
Oren Peli / Film Director
Death
Chance
Movies
Being Scared
Calm
Closest
Controlled
Crave
Emotion
Environment
Merging
Missing
Our Lives
Scared
Scary
Feel
Now
Why
Pretty
Freeway
Give
Risking
Roller
Scary Movies
Thrills
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Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective on me as a viewer I think of the original Haunting and the Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, the Sixth Sense, the Others. These movies are not over the top at all, they are movies that rely on good story telling, good acting, good premise, good exposition and I want to stay true to that in future projects.
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Acting
Baby
Thinking
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