I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process. |
We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody. |
Just making a good movie is hard to do. |
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming. |
You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films. |
I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror. |
In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene. |
I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer. |
I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was. |
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen. |