Quotes by Andy Muschietti - Page 1

Casting is a big deal.
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Big Deal
Casting
Big Deal Big Deal
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Sequels are always tricky.
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Sequels
Tricky
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I don't have a negative perception of clowns.
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Perception
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What captivated me about 'The Flash' is the human drama in it.
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Captivated
Flash
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I've always been a big fan of Stephen King, especially in my teenage years.
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Teenage
Teenage Years
Big Fan
Stephen King
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Of course, the whole mythology of the world of 'It' is very attractive to me.
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Attractive
Mythology
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It's a horror movie, but it's quite emotional too, and there's a lot of humor.
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Horror Movie
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I'm a big fan of Edward Gorey, and I don't think he has been portrayed in film.
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Big Fan
Edward
Portrayed
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I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.
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Worlds
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I think mainly my devotion to horror comes from international horror movies and literature.
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Devotion
Horror Movies
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Pet Sematary' is one of my favorite books of Stephen King and I have a deep love relationship with it.
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Relationship
Pet
Deep Love
Books
Favorite
Stephen King
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I really didn't want to expand the negative vision of clowns because clowns are not intrinsically scary.
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Expand
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I enjoyed clowns when I was a kid going to the circus. Mainly I mean the good clowns, when you go to a circus.
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Circus
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Yeah, I didn't grow up in the '50s like Stephen King so I'm more versed in the '80s and the present day than the '50s.
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Stephen King
Versed
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As much as 'It Chapter One' is a movie about friendship and the power of unified belief, the second part is more about trauma.
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Friendship
Unified
Chapter
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Yeah, my parents exposed me to horror movies when I was like 6 or 7. I mean exposed me in a good way, they didn't mean any harm.
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Exposed
Good Way
Harm
Good Movies Me
Horror Movies
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I learnt to relax a little more and enjoy the process, which is something I didn't do in my first movie - understandably, I guess.
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Relax
Learnt
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Argentina is a bit tough to people. You don't embrace genre film in general. They are more like, in the film community, a bit snobby.
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Argentina
Snobby
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I'm a huge fan of the book and Stephen King is one of my big heroes, literary heroes, and I am a fan, and I want to see a movie of 'It.'
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Literary
Huge Fan
Stephen King
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We live in a world where there's a culture of fear, where some leaders have a strong pull on people, which is exactly what Pennywise does.
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Exactly What
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We are a society that really worked to leave our differences behind, and value equality. All these things actually make a community live in harmony.
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Equality
Community
Differences
Harmony
Behind
Leave
Value
Worked
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The moment you introduce the element of IT, which is an interdimensional evil entity, the presence of the turtle comes with it, as a counterbalance.
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Entity
Element
Introduce
Presence
Turtle
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Bill Hader, nobody can play Richie like this guy, I think. It was great because, for some reason, 'Chapter Two' was a movie that everyone wanted to be in.
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Chapter
Richie
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When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.
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Crave
Limitless
Worlds
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I think apart from the new spectacle that 'Chapter Two' brings compared to the first one, the scope, scale, bigger canvas, I'm proud of the emotional journey.
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Canvas
Scope
Scale
Chapter
First One
Spectacle
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It's like my second home, 'It.' And I would like to return to it, because I feel very comfortable with it, and I have an understanding of it, and I'm passionate about it.
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Second Home
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In fact, one of the descriptions of the character in the book is that 'IT' was not very good at replicating human emotions. And that's something that is overlooked in general.
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Human Emotions
Overlooked
Descriptions
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Hate crimes are still happening. No matter how evolved we think society is going, there seems to be a winding back, especially in this day and age where these old values seem to be emerging from the darkness.
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Emerging
Crimes
Day And Age
Winding
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Something a lot of people probably don't know is 'Chapter One' did have the idea to make a post-credit scene, which was Beverly Marsh picking up the phone. So, 27 years later, post credit, you would see a phone ringing.
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Beverly
Chapter
Marsh
Picking
Post
Ringing
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The character of 'Mama' is so ambitious in a way that everything I did was always on the verge of being almost funny. So you have to be very careful with that. It's that sort of face that you don't usually see in horror.
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Ambitious
Careful
Mama
Verge
Funny Always Character
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Of course it's always easy when you work with people that worked together, or you work with people that you worked with before, because you develop over years some sort of shorthand of communion that is always very valuable.
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Communion
Shorthand
Valuable
Work Together People
Work Together Always
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One of the greatest things about the book is that everything we know about 'It,' it's pretty speculative. We see it from the point of view of Loser's and that's what makes it so scary. We never get to know exactly what it is.
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Point Of View
Exactly What
Greatest Things
Speculative
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Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans for hundreds of years, every 27 years. So you can imagine the amount of material.
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Contact
Mythology
Explore
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Millions Of Years
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You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about - the dark power of adulthood. It's not coincidence all the grown-ups in town are evil. This is not a story about a monster. It's a story about the end of childhood.
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Coincidence
Essence
Grown-Ups
Monster
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My approach to Pennywise was, on one hand, I wanted to stay true to the essence of the character but at the same time make it an edgier character that is basically unpredictable and people won't expect everything he comes up with.
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Essence
Stay True
Time Character People
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IT Chapter Two' is the story of the Losers as adults 27 years later, but they go back to their memories to retrieve something that is very, very necessary. They have to remember who they were, as well as their amazing bond with each other.
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Bond
Chapter
Losers
Retrieve
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Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and talks about all of the treasures of that time, like imagination and belief, that are inevitably lost in adulthood.
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Different Perspective
Inevitably
Letter
Talks
Treasures
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Everything that relates to Pennywise and Bob Gray is very cryptic, and it's like that for a reason. Probably the success of that character as a monster, as a villain is because of that crypticness and uncertainty that people have towards him.
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Uncertainty
Villain
Monster
Relates
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At the beginning when you're writing and building the beats of the story, everything that you put in there seems very essential to the story. However, when you have the movie finally edited and it's 4 four hours long, you realise that some of the events and some of the beats can be easily lifted but the essence of the story remains intact.
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Beats
Essence
Hours
Remains
Seems
Beginning
Easily
Finally
Intact
Lifted
Realise
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