Words matter. These are the best Fede Alvarez Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don’t jump and you don’t scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
It doesn’t matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie’s not entertaining, if the story’s not entertaining.
There’s a reason people use CGI: it’s cheaper and faster. I hate that.
‘The Omen,’ ‘The Exorcist,’ those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
In another life, I would love to be the art guy – a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
There are the horror fans that love the ‘Evil Dead’ because of the humor, but I’m sure it’s not all of them. Not all horror fans love ‘Evil Dead’ because of the humor, at least not me.
I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.
I have my pride. I’m a director. I’m not going to go and recreate some other director’s vision.
I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
A good story will keep you wondering about what’s happening, what’s going on, where does this go? Now it’s going to go that way, now it’s going to go that way. It has to do that. If it’s predictable, it’s just boring.
Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
I’m inspired when I find out about something that I didn’t know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like ‘The Fly,’ or ‘The Thing,’ or even ‘The Blob.’ For our generation, all those things, whether it was ‘The Blob’ or ‘The Fly’ or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.
‘Evil Dead’ was such a big movie in my life. It’s one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don’t remember when I first saw ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ and it’s one of my favourite movies.
Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
