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Yeah, I love 'Boardwalk Empire.'
Zombies are kind of a perennial.
I've always been fascinated by history.
I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.
I've always loved the genre of gangster films.
I definitely never intended to do a zombie movie.
I read pretty much every 'Venom' comic that exists.
I've always been drawn to the more antihero superheroes.
As a comic book fan, I've seen all the comic book movies.
I just want to make sure whatever I take on, I can deliver.
I love music videos, and I think maybe it's my favorite format.
Traditionally in zombie movies, one of the main characters dies.
He's an American treasure, I would be honored to fight Tom Hanks.
I feel like a zombie movie is kind of like the gold to hear movie.
Yeah, I feel lucky to have the opportunity to try different things.
I've had a really hard time dealing with 35mm. I greatly prefer HD.
I think any opportunity you can to employ some visual technique, go for it.
I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.
Venom is such a great character, it will be fun to see who he tangles with along the way.
I feel like there's a true spirit of individuality in Portland that's inherent to the place.
I've definitely pitched some viral ideas and do have a pretty good understanding of the Web.
I was working in commercials and music videos, always with the goal of working in feature films.
I work really hard and have rolled up my sleeves for a long time to get the opportunities I've had.
I think we can all agree it would be pretty amazing to see Spider-Man and Venom face off in a film.
I think Jack Nicholson in 'Chinatown' is a very funny character, but I would never call that a comedy.
Sure, I came up under Mike White, and Miguel Arteta; I was Mike White's assistant on 'Dawson's Creek.'
I thought 'I Am Legend' did a really great job of it, and 'Omega Man,' that concept of an empty world.
I'm not as clever as J.J. Abrams and those guys who fill it with all of these things for people to find.
My first time out of the gate, I made three movies in four years, and they were all very back to back to back.
I have this horrible habit of just pressing online bookmarks that are at the top of my browser like ad infinitum.
'The Dark Knight' does such a great job of delivering an intense, action-packed film that didn't pull any punches.
I basically went from finishing 'Venom.' I had a week off with my family. And then went straight into prep on 'Zombieland 2.'
If you've loved a girl your entire life and you've been afraid to tell her, don't wait because you never know what might happen.
I think sometimes when things have too much time to develop you overthink it and you start making changes that aren't necessary.
I come from music videos and commercials, where style is a big part of the whole world. I've always tried to add that to whatever I'm doing.
It's tough to make a sequel that stands up to the original especially one that has, over the course of time, become a bit of a cult favorite.
I guess as a long time fan of 'Venom,' as soon as I heard they were making a standalone movie I got really excited at the prospect of being involved.
With '30 Minutes or Less,' there was a conscious decision on my part to make it a little less stylized. I wanted it to feel like an '80s action movie.
Sometimes in L.A., we get accused of being superficial. I feel like Portland's the opposite, in that there's a greater depth of character, and sense of self.
Bill Murray, we've got to get people worthy to be on the screen with him, as opposed to just a bunch of random… with no disrespect… but a bunch of random local actors.
When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually led to commercials.
It was fun playing with those jumps and the flashbacks in 'Zombieland,' but I don't think you need it to make a good movie. It's fun to just do a more straightforward one.
Zombie purists don't even call our zombies zombies, because to be a zombie you have to be undead. That's something zombie purists can fight about for years and years to come.
We didn't want to make a movie that excluded any fans. 'Venom' fans actually are of all ages, and so we wanted to be inclusive to all the fans that were excited about the movie.
The trickiest thing is that a lot of times in 'Venom' comics, they'll reveal part of Eddie, and he'll be like a Venom body with an Eddie head, or he'll do that classic split frame face.
I'm a huge fan of comic books movies and comics, and so for me it was a real dream to get to make a movie in this world, and certainly to get to make a movie with Venom as its titular character.
Some of the greatest movies of all time are within this genre, 'The Godfather,' and 'Goodfellas,' and 'Untouchables' and there's just so many classic gangster movies that I was always such a fan of.
We're definitely planning a huge world with this 'Venom' story, and we want to be able to satisfy our own desires and the desires of our fans to explore all of the beloved characters from the universe.
I've got to give a lot of credit to my cinematographer, Chung-hoon Chung, who is a master and among other things shot 'Old Boy,' which is a very famous single-take fight scene. He's really a true master.
And my idols in music videos are people like Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze and Johnathan Glazer and David Fincher and that's always kind of been my reference point in music video and commercial directors.