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“The Eighties were the last decade where the actual filmmaking was still treated with some respect, even if it was horror.”
“Cabin Fever 2' could have been this totally unique crazy type of cult movie but, unfortunately, it's not the movie that I made.”
“As a filmmaker it's a dream to make a western.”
“Mary Woronov was a real treat. She is someone I always wanted to work with, so it was awesome to actually get to do it.”
“If you look at any of my movies I write, direct, edit, and produce them.”
“Once you put people in costumes and hairstyles and things like that, it starts to become that world.”
“If you go back to 'House of the Devil' - we ended up making an '80s movie before it was kind of groovy to make '80s movies again. But really, it looks like a late '70s movie, because most of us didn't have all the brand new stuff. The year may be 1983, but your couch was from 1976.”
“As a filmmaker, what's cool about horror is you're not really as confined as you are in other genres.”
“I'm an only child, and I'm a bit of a weirdo - I really kind of absorbed everything around me.”
“I feel like most media brands in the States, as far as news brands, are heavily slanted to the left or the right. They have their own agenda to what they're doing. Whereas, while Vice is a brand, they don't have their own political agenda.”
“That's the goal: You put in the reps and you keep getting better.”
“I was 17 and came to the realisation that I didn't have plans for the future.”
“Existential things are just relatable to everybody.”
“The independent film world is a fragile ecosystem. It allows for unique experiences and challenging stories to be told by bold filmmakers in adventurous and often unproven ways. Studio films do not take the same risks.”
“Pearl' is a really different movie from 'X,' and 'MaXXXine' is a really different movie from X also.”
“I find writing to be unpleasant, so the faster I can get it done, the better.”
“Making movies is traumatic.”
“Joe Swanberg, the Duplass Brothers - we all came up the same time, in 2005, and all became friends and aligned ourselves as kids making movies, and I just happened to have zombies in mine.”
“Conversations about piracy don't have to be condemning. They don't have to be preachy, self serving or reactionary.”
“The 'slow-burn' thing is something I get labelled with, I think mostly affectionately. I know what people mean, but they don't seem slow-burn to me. It's strange that it's as defining for people as it is. Maybe it's because I can't see my own situation.”