- Filmmaker
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first experience in a movie theater was Dick Tracy. There was a scene with a guy with a Tommy gun and a wall of fire behind him. I panicked, screamed, and jumped out of my seat. And I ran six New York city blocks, running into the street and almost got hit by a bunch of cars and had my mom chasing after a panic-stricken four-year-old.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of witches has always scared me because of the idea that there are Machiavellian forces out there that conspire to hurt others. There are people who do not have your best interest at heart and are actively willing to do harm to you and actively sending energy in that direction.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I work is, I always compose a shot list before I talk to anybody, including my DP. So I'll spend a couple months basically creating the movie in my head, so I have a very solid film in my head, where I know every shot, and I know what the transitions between scenes are.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very impressed by films like' Whiplash' or what Fincher does, where you get all these different... Where you get all this coverage that's perfectly linked up. I actually find coverage very confusing. But I love sequencing shots because I know exactly where I am.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really like working in genre because people come into the films with certain expectations. They know the tropes so well that, when you turn on those, it can be shocking because there's a complacency that comes with watching those films.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the horror genre. I consider myself a genre filmmaker. I love genre, but I think there's a certain amount of complacency that comes with watching a genre film; people know what the devices are. They know what the tropes are. They know the conventions.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The joy of making a genre film is that you have audiences in that place, and it's a perfect place to start because all it takes is finding ways to startle them out of that complacency and encourage a different kind of engagement.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you want pain to be acknowledged and not whitewashed - or erased by some exceptionalist point of view.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Cronenberg so much, especially the films he was doing in the mid to late '80s and early '90s, like 'Naked Lunch' and 'Dead Ringers'.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel like the horror genre is capable of so much. Especially as an in-theater experience, something you watch with other people. It can do so much.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are films that I really love, but I would say I'm not somebody who runs out to every horror film. I avoid most of them. I feel like a lot of them are made very cynically.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don't, but there's no solving it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
A betrayal in a family is much more devastating than a betrayal among friends, or even lovers.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason I think I am able to work with such dark material is the fact I was never really discouraged from making this kind of work.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you're telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre.
- Captivating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single moment in 'Hereditary' is linked to a moment in the end for the payoff. I think it has the ability of captivating people the same way that 'Manchester By the Sea' did. It has that audience because it's so wrapped in human drama.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I'm never affected by anything if I'm not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Lars von Trier. 'Dogville' is my favourite movie of the last 20 years. 'Nymphomaniac' and 'Melancholia' aren't quite as exciting as 'The Kingdom', 'Breaking the Waves', or 'The Idiots', but I'll always love him for being him.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's been a lot of aesthetically rich horror films that have come out in the last several years. 'The Babadook' is this perfectly paced, beautiful film. 'The Witch' is a beautifully made film. 'Get Out' is so intelligently written. I feel like there's so many great things happening right now.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that I put a lot into 'Hereditary', and I'm proud of what it is. Beyond the fact that the film takes its time and asks for a certain amount of patience from the audience - and I hope it rewards that patience by the end - I know that I'm something of an aesthete. I care about aesthetics, and I love filmmaking.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my MFA from AFI as a director in 2010. I've had time to make the shorts that I made previous to 'Hereditary' and to kind of build these movies in my head.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very fortunate in that my parents are artists. My mom is a brilliant poet... She still is a great visual artist. My dad is a jazz drummer... I've been very fortunate in that I've had parents who supported and encouraged me and haven't really questioned what I'm doing or asked me to question it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My films typically veer towards the darker side, and I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really enjoy working in genre because people come into the film with certain expectations, and they know the tropes so well that when you turn on those, it can be really shocking. There's a complaisance that comes with watching those films.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next film I'm making is a horror film, and I'm making it with A24. It's a dark break-up movie that becomes a horror film, set in Sweden. That's all I can really say now. It's called 'Midsommar.' Everybody's been spelling it wrong. It's 'midsummer' in Swedish.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then to upend it.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to play with transgression and upending conventions, and I like the idea of rooting genre films in character.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most horror films are made very cynically, and they're usually made by studios for an audience that they know is there, no matter what they put out. And there are always exceptions - every year, it seems we have a great one coming out.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great horror film works as a communal experience more than almost anything else, except for maybe a comedy. That's something that I've experienced, just taking this movie around and watching it with audiences.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can say that I put a lot of personal feelings into 'Hereditary', though I can also say that none of the characters in the film are surrogates for anybody in my family or for myself.
- American Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated from the American Film Institute in 2010, where I studied as a director, and came out with a few features I really wanted to make.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people felt that they were misled with 'It Comes at Night,' they should know that the marketing here is deliberately misleading you in an honest way, in that we're not hiding what isn't there: we're hiding what is there.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film, whereas 'It Comes at Night' was a lot of things: it was a thriller; it was a postapocalyptic drama. It was a slow-building, very dark movie about relationships. 'Hereditary' is also about relationships, and I hope it functions as a vivid family drama, but it is also very much a horror film.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020