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" A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her. "
Film
Hard
Performance
" Filmmaking is a real craft. "
Filmmaking
Craft
Real
" I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident. "
Try
Confidence
Best
" I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest. "
Love
Lose
Horror
" I'm a believer in film school. "
School
Film
Believer
" I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things. "
Books
Adapting
Things
" In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension. "
Amazing
Creating
Editing
" I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully. "
People
School
Words
" It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts. "
Process
Writing
Where
" I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life. "
Good
Soccer
Professional
" I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid. "
Writing
Kid
Photography
" I went to my first college to play soccer. "
Play
Soccer
College
" I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat. "
Fat
Set
Trim
" I would like to do a sports movie. "
Would
Like
Movie
" Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves. "
Sports
People
Need
" The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer. "
Fall
Group
Prayer
" The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time. "
Way
Long
Subtle
" Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with. "
Trust
You
Friends
" What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship. "
Relationship
Directing
Like
" When I hire actors I believe in their abilities. "
Hire
Believe
I Believe In
" When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people. "
Group
Kid
Large
" When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared. "
Always
Horror
Scared
" When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult. "
Cult
Cults
Know
" When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens. "
People
Long
You
" When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal. "
Personal
You
Write
" Yeah, in my scripts, I don't tend to describe landscape too clearly because I like to keep it really basic and sort of let people paint their own picture. I don't find it helpful to spend a page describing a setting, except for maybe a few key things. "
Key
Picture
Landscape
" You can't write something to please someone. "
You
Write
Something
" You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy. "
Month
Like
Know
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