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"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
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"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
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"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done."
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"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."
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"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
Devil

"I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm."
Movies

"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
Power

"I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."
Attitude

"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."
People

"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good."
Creativity

"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."
Film

"I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror."
Film

"I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema."
Cinema

"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
Love
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