“Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.”
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“An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.”
“Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.”
“People can only make you inferior with your consent.”
“I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.”
“People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.”
“I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.”
“You have to trust your instincts and hope the fans like what you do, but you don't gut check with the fans. If we're going to make a series, people are going to have a lot of opinions and if there's one overwhelming majority or one thing you continuously hear repeated from the fans, you certainly take that into account going into next season.”
“I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.”
“We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and they really understand viewer habits.”
“You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.”
“I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.”
“I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!”
“One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.”
“Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.”
“The censors were great. There's always back and forth. But it's 'Hostel 2', it's not 'Happy Feet 2'. Everybody knows what Hostel is and people that are going to see it are going for more of what they loved in the original. No one is accidentally going to walk into it, no parent is accidentally going to take their child, and we're not pretending what it is in the advertising. We're saying it's very violent, it's very scary and a continuation of the first one.”
“Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.”
“I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.”
“The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.”
“Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.”