Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 'Emily Rose' was based on a real story, and the real girl died, and there were surviving members of the family, so I took the concerns of that very seriously. "
Scott Derrickson
Family
Rose
Seriously
Related Quotes:
" I think after 'The Day The Earth Stood Still,' I really stopped thinking strategically about my career. I just did. At that point, it became crystal clear to me that you can strategise your career all you want, but it's so difficult to get a movie made, and creativity shouldn't be subjected to that kind of strategic thinking. "
Scott Derrickson
Think
Me
Day
" The marketing of my movies is something I have no control over! I usually am shown things to give input beforehand. Some directors get really involved with that, but it's not what I do. I don't know anything about marketing; it's not my skill set! "
Scott Derrickson
Know
Skill
Movies
" I think that Christians who have an interest in filmmaking need to deepen their love for cinema. To be honest, that's what I think has been missing historically from the Christians who want to succeed in the Hollywood industry. "
Scott Derrickson
Think
Filmmaking
Cinema
" Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot of theories that can explain everything. I think we need cinema to break that apart and remind us that we're not in control, and we don't understand as much as we think do. "
Scott Derrickson
World
Religion
Think
" Interestingly enough, there is a really different dynamic when you're directing something that somebody else has written compared to when you're directing something that you've written. And there's a good and a bad side to it. I think the bad side is that you never feel the same level of connection to the material - you just don't. "
Scott Derrickson
Think
You
Good
" Fundamentalism is rooted in fear, and it's another reason I'm interested in the horror genre, because I know the fear that fundamentalism is built upon. "
Scott Derrickson
Reason
Because
Fear
" When I went to Europe a few years ago, I felt very at home there, and I loved standing in Notre Dame and looking at all the gargoyles on the outside of that building and realizing that, as scary and frightening as they were, what I was looking at was something that was built to the glory of God. "
Scott Derrickson
Home
Loved
Looking
" I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people; there was an amazing sense of community. The problem is when the messiness of real life enters, and the inflexibility of a moral code cannot cope with the realities of moral relativism. "
Scott Derrickson
People
Life
Community
" I've never been a materialist; I've never been somebody who believes in only what we can see and measure. I continue to be a student of religious philosophy, and I continue to take those ideas very seriously. "
Scott Derrickson
Ideas
Seriously
Philosophy
" I think more than comedy, probably more than straight drama, I like horror. And horror I think I'm particularly good at. It's a mistake a lot of directors make, especially young directors. They always want to make the kind of movies that they most admire and aren't necessarily sensitive to what they have the best skill set for. "
Scott Derrickson
Think
Movies
Mistake
" There are some people who shouldn't watch horror films, and I'm all right with that. "
Scott Derrickson
People
Watch
Some People
" For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil. "
Scott Derrickson
Intelligence
Satan
Good
" In a science fiction film, you're uniquely responsible to pay respect to the science represented in the movie. "
Scott Derrickson
You
Science Fiction
Science
" I came in with a very specific idea about what a Doctor Strange movie should be, which was rooted in the comics, and I thought it should be as weird and as visually ambitious compared to modern comic book movies as the comic was when it showed up in the '60s compared to other comic books at the time. "
Scott Derrickson
Book
Doctor
Weird
" Fundamentalism is such a pejorative word and immediately evokes images of angry extremism. In my experience, that's not usually what it looks like. I was a fundamentalist in high school. "
Scott Derrickson
Experience
High School
School
" For me, there is a basic recognition of horror as the most open doorway where the intersection of philosophical and religious ideas can come tighter. "
Scott Derrickson
Horror
Recognition
Open
" You know, 'Top Gun' was the movie I saw in high school that made me want to be a filmmaker. I remember very specifically coming out of the Century 21 Theater in Colorado from seeing it, and my friend saying, 'What did you think of the movie?' And I said, 'I think I know what I want to do for a living.' That's a true story. "
Scott Derrickson
Think
School
Saying
" When I was hired to write and direct a movie, my Christian duty suddenly became quite clear: My primary duty as a Christian in Hollywood is to do my job well. "
Scott Derrickson
Christian
Write
Job
" Catholicism is so steeped in imagery. It's one of the many reasons Catholicism has given birth to so many great filmmakers compared to the Protestant tradition - even in America, where we're primarily Protestant. "
Scott Derrickson
Tradition
Where
America
" I'm not going to work outside of genre. It's going to be horror, action, or sci-fi. I don't ever really see myself being interested in movies outside of that. "
Scott Derrickson
Movies
Action
Horror
" Some of the most intelligent people I've met in my life are priests and pastors; now, a lot of them aren't that, though. Some of the most sanctimonious and hypocritical people I've met are priests and pastors, also. "
Scott Derrickson
Intelligent
My Life
People
" The evil within the fantasy genre tends to be threatening to the heroes within the story, but not to the reader - or not to the viewer, in the case of cinema - and that's why I think it's more palatable and something that is more easily embraced for a lot of people. "
Scott Derrickson
Think
Story
Cinema
" There are certainly better writers and directors than me, but I have worked very hard to earn credibility within the business as a quality writer and a good director. "
Scott Derrickson
Good
Quality
Me
" There's a clean simplicity to the plotting of 'Sinister,' whether you like it or not. And the scares are deliberate and even heavy-handed in a way. There's not a lot of sophistication or nuance in the plotting and not much restraint in the scares - and that's a part of what makes the movie accessible. "
Scott Derrickson
Like
Much
Simplicity
" I always liked 'The Outer Limits' as a kid. More than 'The Twilight Zone.' "
Scott Derrickson
Always
More
Limits
" I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm writing and making and thinking about things very seriously and feeling very deeply at times, and trying to translate that into a narrative. "
Scott Derrickson
Writing
Thinking
Story
" I spent a lot of my adult life overcoming fear. It was a subject I knew a lot about, and it's one of the most important and most powerful human emotions. Fear is one of the greatest driving forces in the world. So I thought I could go into the horror genre and do things differently and contribute a different point of view. "
Scott Derrickson
Life
Fear
World
" I'm an orthodox Christian. When people ask me if I'm a Christian, I always want to qualify and know what they mean by that. I'm not a Republican, and I'm not right wing. I'm not a dispensationalist. I don't think the world's about to end. "
Scott Derrickson
End
Know
Me
" I have friends who are scientists, strict materialists, who don't think science and religion are compatible, but I just think most of us - unless you're a strict atheist materialist, which there aren't many of - most of us believe in something outside the material world. And if you do believe that, I don't know how you're not obsessed with it. "
Scott Derrickson
Think
World
Science
" I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past - they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way. "
Scott Derrickson
Good
Grateful
Life