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In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.
Fede Alvarez
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Fede Alvarez
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: February 9
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More quotes by Fede Alvarez
A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.
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There's so much stuff going on behind the cameras. Sometimes people think these things are done certain ways and when you watch that you see how hard and down and dirty it was.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.
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There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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I need to create a whole cinematic experience. I think that's what it takes to get the audience to the theater and justify seeing [a movie] on a big screen. You have to give them a cinematic experience.
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I like to get the audiences cozy in their seats, feeling safe, and suddenly they'll be shocked out of their minds.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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I think violence in movies, for it to work, you have to use it smartly. People get numb very fast. If you have too much violence in the beginning, it gets to a point where you don't feel it.
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I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.
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I don't want to spoon-feed the audience, like, This is the funny guy, this is one you hate, this is the one you like. A lot of movies do that. They don't really give you a choice. They show you the jock, and he's an idiot, and everybody has to hate him. You have no choice.
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I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake.
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Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.
Fede Alvarez
For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.
Fede Alvarez
Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and then you start cutting stuff out.
Fede Alvarez
What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.
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