Top 36 Quotes About Fede
#1. I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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#2. I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.
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#3. 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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#4. 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. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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#5. 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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#6. Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.
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#7. A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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#8. 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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#10. I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.
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#11. 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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#12. As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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#16. In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There is danger, and the scares have to kick in the right places with the drama. And you try not to do too much to try to create those moments. Those moments create themselves.
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#20. In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
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#21. That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.
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#22. Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
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#23. When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
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#27. 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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#28. 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.
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#29. I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.
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#30. I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.
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#31. It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.
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#32. It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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#33. 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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#34. I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.
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#35. There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.
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#36. There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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