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" A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is. "
Horror
Interesting
Movies
" As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn't have to do posters. I wish didn't have to give anything away. I wish people could just come in the movie blind. But as an audience member, I respect that you have to tell an audience that this is worth your time. "
Wish
Time
Respect
" As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is. "
Matter
Movie
Me
" Certainly, 3rd acts of any movie are hard. It's always hard to have something that will give you the promises from the beginning of the movie. That's true for all movies. "
Promises
Beginning
Movies
" Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the 'Friday the 13th' movies had quite an influence on me growing up. "
Growing Up
Like
Me
" Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite. "
Endeavor
People
Opposite
" Every project is different. Adapting 'Robopocalypse' would be totally different than adapting, say, 'Hunger Games.' Each project has its own life and its own identity. You get into trouble when you think there's one single way to approach everything. Each project, there's a different way to attack it. "
Say
Life
Identity
" Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways. "
You
Yourself
Filmmaking
" Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie. "
Movie
Here
Did
" I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off. "
Off
Her
Tell
" I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed. "
Care
Lost
Movies
" I feel the way I always do about sequels. If there's an idea that excites me enough, and it feels like a way to do something new and fresh, then great. But I don't ever want to do a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel. "
Enough
Want
Me
" If I had all the filmmakers that traumatized me when I was a little kid in this room, all I would say is, 'Thank you,' because they've made me who I am. As much as I say 'trauma,' it all comes from a place of love. The fact that I am feeling emotions at all based on a work is a wonderful thing, so I'm happy to be a part of that discussion. "
Work
Happy
I Am
" If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one. "
Carpenter
Go
Number
" If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possible, and people will relate to it. You can be fearless in your storytelling if you're vigilant about protecting your characters. "
You
People
Story
" If you worry too much about anything, you end up making bad movies. "
Too Much
Worry
End
" I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there. "
Reason
Mexico
Know
" I guess I'm just the kind of person who likes to do it all. It's fun to put on the writer's hat and go hide by myself with my computer for six months. Then it's fun to come out and put the director hat on and deal with all the things that a director deals with. Then it's fun to just be the producer and, um, not do anything. "
Hat
Hide
Myself
" I had one of those families that let me watch things they should not have let me watch. When I was a kid, I remember I watched 'Alien' at, like, 6. It was traumatizing. "
Like
Me
Alien
" I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film. "
Life
Film
Hard
" I love a good harsh horror movie, when it's done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell when a filmmaker loves the genre, and you can tell when someone's just cashing in a paycheck. Then it becomes a dumbing down - a fetishisation of violence that I react very strongly against. "
Love
Violence
You
" I love cult movies. I probably have watched 'Big Trouble In Little China' more than anyone on the planet. "
More
Love
Trouble
" I love going to horror movies - especially when they are fun. I think that they get you in touch with sort of these primal instincts that we all have in the relative safety of the theater. "
Think
Safety
Movies
" I love TV. I've been lucky that I get to do both, and both have things I love about them, features and TV. I hope I get to do both for the rest of my career. "
Rest
Things
Lucky
" In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson. "
Always
Never
Story
" I tend to fall more into the fun horror genre than the traumatic horror genre. I love the films where you're laughing as much as screaming, but that doesn't mean I don't like the other ones. "
Fall
Mean
Love
" I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that. "
New
Hollywood
Matter
" I think so much of the horror film is about our primal instincts, and our primal instincts are not just towards violence. It's also towards sex. I feel like horror movies, as much as they're about violence, they're also about sex. It's about our instincts, so in that regard, it's crucial that you honor both of those things. "
Movies
You
Violence
" I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember. "
Good
Think
Run
" I think 'The Thing' is so good because it's not just a scary movie. It's also social commentary, which works on multiple levels, which is something I really respond to. "
Respond
Good
Because
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