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Joshua Leonard

"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."

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"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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A.E. Samaan

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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A.E. Samaan

"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."

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A.E. Samaan

"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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A.E. Samaan

"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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A.E. Samaan

"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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A.E. Samaan

"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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Joshua Leonard
"The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research."

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Joshua Leonard
"We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared."

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Joshua Leonard
"I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of."

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Joshua Leonard
"We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments."

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Joshua Leonard
"I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one."

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Joshua Leonard
"I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though."

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Joshua Leonard
"Actors are such an insecure breed."

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Joshua Leonard
"I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak."

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Joshua Leonard
"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."

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Joshua Leonard
"Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film."

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