I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
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AVA DUVERNAY You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not q... DANNY ELFMAN Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't. GEORGE A. ROMERO Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally... EDGAR WRIGHT After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct... KIM JEE-WOON A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doe... FEDE ALVAREZ I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. &... BILL PLYMPTON I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the '... AMBER HEARD When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a ... JAMES FRANCO On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes;... SUNG KANG Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film,... MIKE FIGGIS I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you... ERIQ LA SALLE I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself d... CAITY LOTZ As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily. ESHA GUPTA You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that ar... SAFFRON BURROWS You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the pla... BARRY JENKINS I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascina... EDGAR WRIGHT There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass... JOE WRIGHT I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. I... DREW GODDARD I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films t... MIKE BIRBIGLIA I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones tha... GEORGE A. ROMERO Great horror films don't win Academy Awards. WES CRAVEN I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to b... CHRISTOPHER GUEST Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a stu... GARY SHERMAN I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one k... MADHUR BHANDARKAR Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there i... EDGAR WRIGHT I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things li... TERRY ZWIGOFF I like to think I'm making films in the film business where movies are making enough numbers for... WES CRAVEN I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest. CLAUDE CHABROL I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a roman... RAIN Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go... DAVID MACKENZIE I thought the marketing was really smart and really clever and unique at the time. It positioned ... JAMES WAN If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands ... FEDE ALVAREZ I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd h... GUY RITCHIE Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because ... WOODY HARRELSON I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily. ED OXENBOULD The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had th... HAYDEN PANETTIERE I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - g... YASH CHOPRA Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, becaus... BRUNO DUMONT I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as... DANNY BOYLE There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror fi... JOHN LANDIS The horror films that I've made have been satirical in one way or another or political, and I re... GEORGE A. ROMERO I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films,... RUPERT FRIEND Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good i... CHRISTOPHER YOUNG It's a thriller, it's definitely not a horror film, but it has enough of the elements that also work... WES CRAVEN In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is. BARRY WATSON I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships. YASH CHOPRA I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The... ELI ROTH In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film. DANNY ELFMAN I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's d... RYAN REYNOLDS What will happen if you can't say that this wasn't a film? DEYTH BANGER I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that.... JEFF NICHOLS I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to tur... PARK CHAN-WOOK I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about the... DANNY BOYLE The truth is that I didn't start out making commercial movies. My films were not film festival m... JAMES GUNN Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more co... ALEX NORTH Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well. WES CRAVEN You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.' ELI ROTH A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast... RANI MUKERJI I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make s... TERRY ZWIGOFF My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars. ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good f... ERIQ LA SALLE I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If ... NEILL BLOMKAMP Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And ju... TOBY KEITH The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have ... JAMES WAN They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some f... MIRA NAIR The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have ... JAMES WAN When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortun... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU It's good to have a governing body to oversee matters in making of films, but you can't blam... AKKINENI NAGARJUNA Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing. DOUGRAY SCOTT Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people'... BRYAN FULLER But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. ... JANE CAMPION I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, a... EDGAR WRIGHT At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast.... DONALD PLEASENCE I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Ca... PAM GRIER I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, y... FRANCES MCDORMAND I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Av... ADRIENNE BARBEAU Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ... SAM RAIMI If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genr... GEORGE A. ROMERO I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're r... JAMIE BELL I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico... GAEL GARCIA BERNAL You don't have to look like an Under Armour mannequin to be an athlete. A lot of people probably... PRINCE FIELDER I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think m... BILL PLYMPTON I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war,... AARON STANFORD We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won&... AVA DUVERNAY The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something... EDGAR WRIGHT I'm interested in making films that make people think. ERIN WAY The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audien... NEIL JORDAN Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with ... ALAN PARKER TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent fil... JESSICA LANGE One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children'... GURINDER CHADHA
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