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Let's keep making inexpensive movies.
I started out producing theatre in New York.
People love being scared, even for long periods of time.
Halloween is woke, and there's nothing we can do about it.
It is hard to make a movie funny and scary at the same time.
I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.
I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.
One of the things is that you need to space out scary movies.
I love horror movies, obviously; otherwise, I wouldn't make them.
My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'
For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.
With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.
I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.
Blumhouse Books is not an outlet for us to mine intellectual property for movies and TV.
It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.
Ryan Murphy and I share our love of horror and musicals. I think those things somehow go together.
There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.
I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.
I do want to grow our company, so the way I've been doing that is moving 'scary' to different things.
As an entrepreneur, one of my biggest struggles is that you have to focus, but you also have to expand.
The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.
I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.
The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.
I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted to get paid more.
When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.
I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.
Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing that happened to the movie business because it means you have to make good movies.
I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.
The only way I think about kids in production is practically, the younger the kids are the harder it is to shot the movie.
I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.
I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.
I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.
Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.
I don't believe in ghosts or paranormal activity, but one time I think I saw - I might have seen - no, I think I did see a ghost.
I think, generally, the creative process is hurt if you're thinking about the end as opposed to focusing on day-to-day decisions.
When people come to me with an idea and they say, 'We can do it found footage or traditional,' I always say to do it traditionally.
Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.
I've grown to love it, but I'm not like a lot of other people who were always crazy horror fans like Eli Roth or Quentin Tarantino.
When you have less risk, you have more fun. You can take risks. It's much easier to take risks when there's less money on the line.
YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.
It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.
I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.
You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script by another scary movie writer.'
I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.
You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.
I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.
We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.