A biography for Ruben Fleischerhasn’t been written yet.
“He's an American treasure, I would be honored to fight Tom Hanks.”
“I read pretty much every 'Venom' comic that exists.”
“With '30 Minutes or Less,' there was a conscious decision on my part to make it a little less stylized. I wanted it to feel like an '80s action movie.”
“I think any opportunity you can to employ some visual technique, go for it.”
“My first time out of the gate, I made three movies in four years, and they were all very back to back to back.”
“Sure, I came up under Mike White, and Miguel Arteta; I was Mike White's assistant on 'Dawson's Creek.'”
“I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.”
“I work really hard and have rolled up my sleeves for a long time to get the opportunities I've had.”
“I've always been fascinated by history.”
“I have this horrible habit of just pressing online bookmarks that are at the top of my browser like ad infinitum.”
“I think sometimes when things have too much time to develop you overthink it and you start making changes that aren't necessary.”
“Sometimes in L.A., we get accused of being superficial. I feel like Portland's the opposite, in that there's a greater depth of character, and sense of self.”
“Bill Murray, we've got to get people worthy to be on the screen with him, as opposed to just a bunch of random... with no disrespect... but a bunch of random local actors.”
“Zombie purists don't even call our zombies zombies, because to be a zombie you have to be undead. That's something zombie purists can fight about for years and years to come.”
“I've always been drawn to the more antihero superheroes.”
“That 'Zombieland' thing was pretty great. I think I didn't realize just how lucky I was after that first movie, to have something so special and to have a cast that's so special.”
“Like, I've worked on movies where you go in every day and you know that what you're shooting isn't very good to start with and then you have to figure it out, and that's way harder.”
“I think the filmmakers that I love are ones that cross genres and do different thinks, the way that David O. Russell can do something like 'Flirting With Disaster' but then go do 'Three Kings' which is like an incredibly visual film - that's a huge reference point.”
“I'm a huge fan of comic books movies and comics, and so for me it was a real dream to get to make a movie in this world, and certainly to get to make a movie with Venom as its titular character.”
“I basically went from finishing 'Venom.' I had a week off with my family. And then went straight into prep on 'Zombieland 2.'”