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"I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place."
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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"The future is always a dystopia in movies."
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"A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action."
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"And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen."
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"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."
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"The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know."
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"January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out."
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"My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make."
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"I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that."
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"The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know."
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"I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads."
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"The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that."
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"And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it."
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"I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes."
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"Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life."
Life
"I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies."
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"It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more."
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"What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime."
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