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When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
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Important
Stories
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.
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Limits
Pages
Stuff
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I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.
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Inspiration
Thinking
Trying
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Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
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Filmmaker
Thinking
Trying
Me See Try
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I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'
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Hills
Tension
Traumatic
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Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.
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France
Spring
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In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.
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Horror
Horror Movie
Slasher
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I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.
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Character
People
Sides
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When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.
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Challenges
Finding Yourself
Interesting
Repeating
Slasher
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The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.
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Supportive
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Understands
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In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.
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Horror Genre
People
Scary
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Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles.
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Running
Marketing
People
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It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.
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Challenges
Creative
Trying
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Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them?
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Believe
Character
Strong
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It's always very interesting to bet who's going to go first and who is going to have the most unbelievable death. It's always fun to play with that and create more expectation. It's an interesting part of horror movie.
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Fun
Interesting
Play
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You have to be realistic in the use of blood in the movies. There is a little bit more than a gallon in a human being. If you have a few thousand people, that makes a lot of blood. I'm very realistic in my use of blood.
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Blood
People
Use
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Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the code and never step outside of exactly what you're doing.
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Code
Niche
Okay
Eighties
Exactly What
Nineties
Obey
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I'm a huge fan of movies, and I watch DVDs all day, and I like to be able to watch DVDs that are different from what was in theaters. Whether that's uncut or a director's cut. I think it's an awesome way to rediscover the movie.
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All Day
Awesome
Huge Fan
Rediscover
Theaters
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I follow my instincts and I always think about what movie I would like to see. If I want to see it then I'm guessing that some other people might want to see it as well. I never try to think about what people will love or will like, because when you start to think for other people that's where you lose track of the real motivation.
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