Sean Durkin Quotes

#1. A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

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#2. The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

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#3. The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

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#4. Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

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#5. Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

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#6. You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

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#7. In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

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#8. It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

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#9. I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

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#10. I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

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#11. I went to my first college to play soccer.

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#12. I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.

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#13. I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

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#14. What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

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#15. I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

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#16. When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

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#17. When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

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#18. Filmmaking is a real craft.

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#19. When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

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#20. I'm a believer in film school.

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#21. I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

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#22. Yeah, in my scripts, I don't tend to describe landscape too clearly because I like to keep it really basic and sort of let people paint their own picture. I don't find it helpful to spend a page describing a setting, except for maybe a few key things.

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#23. When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

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#24. You can't write something to please someone.

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#25. When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens.

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#26. I would like to do a sports movie.

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#27. When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

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