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" A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years. "
Know
Comedy
Laugh
" Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor. "
You
Right
Goal
" Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash. "
First
Against
Going
" As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act. "
Beginning
Doing
Job
" As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge. "
Charge
Always
Responsible
" As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed. "
Fast
Myself
Crazy
" 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart. "
Amazing
Picture
Smart
" Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids. "
Kids
Camp
Love
" 'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific. "
Horror
Slow
Pace
" Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there. "
Very
Chile
Talent
" Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. "
Writing
Become
Creative
" 'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it. "
Weird
Sense
You
" Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it. "
People
Holocaust
Even
" Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist. "
Being
Labeled
Everyone
" For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit. "
Time
Habit
Girl
" Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with. "
Actor
Horror
Need
" Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way. "
Horror
You
Be Different
" Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?' "
Her
Best
Horror
" I can think of endless horrible things to do to people! "
Things
Think
People
" I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it. "
People
Love
Limits
" I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down. "
Horror
Feel
Lost
" If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them. "
Really
Someone
Up
" If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done. "
Having Fun
Done
You
" I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me. "
Own
Me
Make
" I get a little too obsessive with work. "
Too
Little
Get
" I have a strong art-history background. "
Background
Strong
" I have control issues. For sure, no question. "
Control
Question
Sure
" I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it. "
Tattoos
Been
Even
" I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop. "
Different
Write
Head
" I have the infinite galaxy from '2001' as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars. "
Space
I Can
Galaxy
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