But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people.
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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.
A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.
When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.
There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.
The horror genre gets you in touch with our primal instincts as a people more than any other genre I can think of. It gives you this chance to sort of reflect on who we are and look at the sort of uglier side that we don't always look at, and have fun with that very thing.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that.
The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.
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