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" I love Jamaica so much. I've been there so much, and I think it would be great if we could shoot a movie there. "
Jonathan Levine
Much
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Think
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" For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next. "
Jonathan Levine
Strange
Think
Sad
" I really hope everyone who saw 'Twilight' sees 'Warm Bodies,' but at the same time... I don't resent the comparison on a level of quality because I don't judge other movies like that. Now that I make movies, I see how hard it is to do everything. I pretty much love all movies. "
Jonathan Levine
Love
Hope
Time
" As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff. "
Jonathan Levine
Going
Different
Evolve
" Genre is a really great shorthand you can have with an audience. In the same way you can use music to create a connection with an audience, it brings so much of their knowledge of what genre really is to the table. You have a shortcut to connect with them. I really like that. "
Jonathan Levine
Great
Music
You
" My first real television-watching experience was when I watched 'L.A. Law,' like, at 10 o'clock Thursday nights with my parents. They would let me stay up late. "
Jonathan Levine
Parents
Real
Experience
" For me, I just value my friendships so much. I mean, I love my family, too, but my friends - I have a really special connection with my friends. "
Jonathan Levine
Family
Value
Mean
" I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good. "
Jonathan Levine
You
See
Good
" I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has. "
Jonathan Levine
Connections
Expectations
Kind
" Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly. "
Jonathan Levine
Time
Song
Listen
" I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies. "
Jonathan Levine
Run
Vampires
Movies
" I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out. "
Jonathan Levine
School
Start
Writing
" I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence. "
Jonathan Levine
Early
City
New York
" I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies. "
Jonathan Levine
Think
Grow
Grow Up
" I kind of viewed '50/ 50' and 'Warm Bodies' both as my next films after 'The Wackness.' In my head, I was just like, 'I'll try the big, fun, adventure-weird movie, and I'll do the small, heartfelt comedy-drama, and one of them will probably work out, and I'll get to work more.' "
Jonathan Levine
Head
Small
Try
" I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know. "
Jonathan Levine
You
Think
Mirror
" I don't often watch something I've done on TV. Usually, I'll change the channel and watch something else. "
Jonathan Levine
Watch
Change
Done
" I like a pretty relaxed, fun set. Everyone knows they can bring whoever they want and hang out. "
Jonathan Levine
Pretty
Bring
Like
" In rehearsals, I like to create an honest environment that is kinda free and fun. "
Jonathan Levine
Free
Honest
Create
" I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary. "
Jonathan Levine
Moment
Scary
You
" After 'Mandy Lane,' I didn't really know what to do because I didn't know anyone who'd made a feature yet. "
Jonathan Levine
After
Really
Made
" I was actually shooting 'Warm Bodies' on the day that '50/50' came out, which I don't recommend to other filmmakers because I was sort of a wreck. Actually, it was good for me, because I had work to do, so I couldn't obsess all day and be checking how '50/50' was doing! "
Jonathan Levine
Good
Doing
Warm
" For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak. "
Jonathan Levine
Me
Look
Speak
" I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes. "
Jonathan Levine
Like
Silly
Jokes
" I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene. "
Jonathan Levine
Scene
Like
Movies
" I used to drive a convertible around L.A. a lot. "
Jonathan Levine
Around
Drive
Lot
" It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another. "
Jonathan Levine
Movies
Capture
Always
" Right after 'The Wackness' came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit disappointing when it came out. Even though not that many people saw it, I was still getting offered some movies. I was thinking that people would just stop calling me since it didn't do very well at the box office. "
Jonathan Levine
Me
Movies
People
" I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that. "
Jonathan Levine
Song
Thinking
Music
" I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience. "
Jonathan Levine
Learning
Work
Myself
" 'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it. "
Jonathan Levine
Find
Going
Warm