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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.
Fede Alvarez
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Fede Alvarez
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: February 9
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St. Louis
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Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.
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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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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 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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In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.
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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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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.
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Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale.
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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'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake.
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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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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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I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
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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.
Fede Alvarez
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.
Fede Alvarez
When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.
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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.
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I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.
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There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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