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"The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."
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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."
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"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."
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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
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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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"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."
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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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"I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters."
Creativity
"The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."
Movies
"If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies."
Film
"The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront."
Blood
"I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money."
Money
"I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts."
Horror
"There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws."
Time
"I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects."
Thought
"As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!"
Love
"As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie."
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