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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 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

" There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can't tell my family, just as far as how I'm feeling about things. My friends know me the best in a certain way. I just think old friends are really, really important. "

Jonathan Levine

Old Friends

Family

" I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing. "

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

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

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

" To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much. "

Jonathan Levine

Love

Music

" I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus. "

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

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

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

Jonathan Levine

Fast

School

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

" I like a pretty relaxed, fun set. Everyone knows they can bring whoever they want and hang out. "

Jonathan Levine

Pretty

Bring

" 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

Reality

Director

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I definitely think New York is a very, very vibrant, wonderful city, but I certainly, of course, can't help but miss a lot of the stuff that's no longer there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" I used to drive a convertible around L.A. a lot. "

" 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

Work

" 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. "

" '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. "

" I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes. "

Jonathan Levine

Silly

Jokes