top of page
More

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
Author Name
Personal Development

"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"
Author Name
Personal Development

"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"
Author Name
Personal Development

"I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film."
Author Name
Personal Development

"And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportunities have come forward."
Author Name
Personal Development

"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money."
Money

"If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist."
Inspirational

"I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies."
Movies

"Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?"
Woman

"I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good."
Movies

"This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level."
Horror

"Each feature I make is my focus at that time."
Time

"I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies."
Movies

"Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project."
Mistake

"Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning."
Society
bottom of page