A good character is always slightly unexpected, or a character that makes a turn or where you can see the character arc and watch he/she develop... not obvious... obviously a good guy or bad guy. |
A lot of people say my work borrows from Hitchcock, but I think if I've stolen... of COURSE I've stolen, this is a parasitic medium... but if I'm parasitic of anyone it's Welles, and Michael Pal and Kazan... those are my guys. The James Whale stuff... I LOVE the old B&W movies, like classic paintings. |
A real program called Helping Hands... real monkeys are put in homes with handicapped or disabled people. They can get you your lunch, answer the door, turn the TV or music on... like having a little helper. They're raised on Discovery Island at Disney World, and you can adopt them! |
All of a sudden, Pittsburgh became one of the places where all the movies were being shot... a lot of them. So, now I can't escape Pittsburgh. I can't get out of this town! |
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it! |
As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie. |
Everybody says it's hard to release an unrated thing now. It's the same story. |
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters. |
I didn't like Scream too much. I thought Scream 2 was better. |
I didn't play practical jokes at home. I had a strict upbringing, which is part of my rebellion. I was raised Catholic and went to parochial school, which is why priests and nuns appear in my movies a lot, and I don't have very much nice to say about them. |
I don't know of any TV series that I was so in love with that I'd like to do a remake of except for the Ernie Kovacs show. But, we'd have to go dig him up and see if he's still funny. |
I don't like all the deferential humor, I think it detracts. Laugh with it, not at it. |
I guess I'm just ordinary! |
I hung out at a local film lab and learned how to use the tools. I grew up in B&W... all serious, meaningful things were in B&W! If you trace TV, the serious dramas were in B&W, and I think it's a holdover from those of us who were working then who think B&W was good. |
I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed. |