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" I watched 'Return Of The Living Dead.' That one's cool, man. I like that one. "
Jonathan Levine
Dead
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Man
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" As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff. "
Jonathan Levine
Going
Different
Evolve
" I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has. "
Jonathan Levine
Connections
Expectations
Kind
" 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 used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, 'I hope people like it!' I'm not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on '50/50' that most critics really liked it. "
Jonathan Levine
Hope
Lucky
People
" 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'm always walking around with headphones on, creating my own soundtracks to whatever the day is. I think I have a poppy sensibility. "
Jonathan Levine
Day
Creating
Think
" I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that? "
Jonathan Levine
Started
Tough
City
" To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much. "
Jonathan Levine
Love
Me
Music
" 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. "
Jonathan Levine
Coming Home
Music
Building
" 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
" 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 intimidated by Malkovich for, like, a couple of days, and then I wasn't. He's awesome. He's so cool. He was so wonderful to work with. "
Jonathan Levine
Awesome
Like
Work
" 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
" 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 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 like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene. "
Jonathan Levine
Scene
Like
Movies
" I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus. "
Jonathan Levine
Bus
Movie
Back
" 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. "
Jonathan Levine
Horror
Doing
Always
" 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' - 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. "
Jonathan Levine
People
You
Want
" I have a lot of friends with bad taste in music - some might say that I have bad taste in music. "
Jonathan Levine
Say
Some
Taste
" I used to drive a convertible around L.A. a lot. "
Jonathan Levine
Around
Drive
Lot
" I really like using genre to tell a story about characters but also use it as a Trojan horse to tell social or cultural commentary. That's where the best stuff, especially in the zombie genre, comes out of. "
Jonathan Levine
Horse
Like
Story
" Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies. "
Jonathan Levine
Movies
Horror
Horror Movies
" 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
" 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'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern. "
Jonathan Levine
Writer
Home
Hal
" As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring. "
Jonathan Levine
Up
Reality
Director
" On '50/50,' even though it was 8 million dollars, it was all acting-intensive. "
Jonathan Levine
Though
Million Dollars
Million
" 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