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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
Director
Film Director
Film Producer
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St. Louis
Missouri
Federico Alvarez
Federico Álvarez
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I really don't like to go for the stereotypes. I try to give you characters that you don't know until you get to know them, and [decide] how you should feel about them.
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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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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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There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.
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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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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.
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Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.
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When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.
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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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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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