There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.
From Jason Blum
There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted to get paid more.
YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.
The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.
My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'
Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.
I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.
I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.
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