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" I think people will always want to go see a movie, whether it's a comedy and you want to see it and laugh with people, or whatever. "

Jonathan Levine

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" There's so often - in filmmaking, you're backed into something that already has these set parameters, whether it's a sequel or a book that people love. "

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" 'Warm Bodies' - I was contractually obligated to deliver a PG-13 movie. But, like, I wanted it to be PG-13 because it's for younger people, and I don't want them not to be able to see it. I mean, you have to kind of think about the marketplace as well. "

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" I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has. "

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" In rehearsals, I like to create an honest environment that is kinda free and fun. "

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" I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things. "

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" I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we sold it to Harvey Weinstein for a lot of money. "

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" Zombies have always had a lot of built-in social commentary. "

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" I don't often watch something I've done on TV. Usually, I'll change the channel and watch something else. "

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" I have a lot of friends with bad taste in music - some might say that I have bad taste in music. "

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" Do I wish I was Martin Scorsese? Yeah. But am I really proud of the movies I've made and really happy that I get to keep making them? Yes. "

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" I've been a huge fan of Hal Ashby forever. And I think that the distinctive thing about 'Coming Home' is the love story, and how - kind of emotionally real it is, and how these two characters allow each other to see their - kind of vulnerabilities. And it's great because it's a love story that's not really that cheesy, either. "

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" I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies. "

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" I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene. "

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" I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror movies are a great way to go. "

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" I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" On '50/50,' even though it was 8 million dollars, it was all acting-intensive. "

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" To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagined that you have to think deep down that you want to be Martin Scorsese or you want to be P.T. Anderson. Like, am I as good as those guys? Absolutely not. I feel like I keep learning, and I feel like I keep getting better. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like. "

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" I watched 'Return Of The Living Dead.' That one's cool, man. I like that one. "

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" 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. "

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