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Born: 1981-12-09
Profession: Director
Nation: American
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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.

Tags: Love, Trust, Work

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.

Tags: Happens, Someone, Time

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.

Tags: Few, Keep, Picture

Filmmaking is a real craft.

Tags: Craft, Filmmaking, Real

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

Tags: Best, Confidence, Try

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

Tags: Fear, Lose, Love

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

Tags: Kid, Short, Writing

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

Tags: Goal, Good, Life

I went to my first college to play soccer.

Tags: College, Soccer

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

Tags: Fat, Rewrite, Won

I would like to do a sports movie.

Tags: Movie, Sports

I'm a believer in film school.

Tags: Believer, Film, School

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

Tags: Adapting, Books, Interested

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

Tags: Ends, Process, Writing

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

Tags: Fall, Group, Prayer

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

Tags: Takes, Time, Works

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

Tags: Directing, Learned, Soccer

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

Tags: Hire

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

Tags: Afraid, Group, Kid

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

Tags: Kid, Loved, Scared

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

Tags: Cult, Leave, Left

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

Tags: Matter, Personal, Write

You can't write something to please someone.

Tags: Please, Someone, Write

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

Tags: Isolated, Month

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.

Tags: Fear, Hard, Work

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

Tags: Feeling, Morning, School
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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.

Tags: Amazing, Choose, Tension

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.

Tags: Religion, Sports, Work
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