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Vote:   | Actors are such an insecure breed. |
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Vote: | Anytime I can avoid re-treading the same ground, I will. Really though it's all about the script and the people involved that gets me juiced about a project - OK, and on occasion it's about the money, but only if the rent's not paid. |
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Vote: | Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche. |
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Vote: | Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie. |
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Vote: | I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though. |
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Vote: | I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience. |
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Vote: | I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak. |
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Vote: | I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of. |
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Vote: | I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it-that was just weird luck. |
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Vote: | I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one. |
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Vote: | In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film. |
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Vote: | Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing. |
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Vote: | Pain is pain, joy is joy-you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role. |
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Vote: | Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film. |
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Vote: | The big studio movies are spending more and more money, which means they have to open in more theatres in order to re-coup their investment. |
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Vote: | The emotions of fear when you're watching The Blair Witch Project and when you're watching Scream are completely different. |
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Vote: | The film doesn't work if it's all, you know, high moments. Heather and I started tussling the first day, just little personality tussles. One of our instructions was to kind of bring that back, to not blow our wad all at once. |
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Vote: | The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research. |
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Vote: | There's no way to really prepare. When you're on your third PowerBar day, when your cigarettes are gone, when you haven't showered, when you've been kept awake, when you've got a sleep deprivation thing going, when you're exhausted, when there's 2 inches of rain in the bottom of your tent-you've got to act. |
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Vote: | We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments. |
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Vote: | We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared. |
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Vote: | When you're watching one of these thrill-ride horror films you're expecting to be-but you're not-scared in any kind of visceral manner: You're waiting for the splatter shot or the guy popping out from behind the bed. Whereas with this film, it's such a film of the gut and the imagination that you're allowed to take your own journey with that. |
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Vote: | You're wiping your ass with leaves and you're with two total strangers 24 hours a day and there are babies crying outside your tents at 4 in the morning. There's only so much that you can intellectually prepare for, and then you go out and that's where you get the method, that's where you get the reality. |