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I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.
The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.
My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.
I’m just calm under fire. I’m not intimidating at all.
This is really a difficult time to be in films.
I’m not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I’m much more of a thinker.
Just making a good movie is hard to do.
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they’re in the screen.
It’s the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
We do nods to Charlie’s Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.
Slot machines are like crack for old people.
You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.
In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
We’ve seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can’t make any movie and it will be good.
It’s rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn’t respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.
You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.
I put heavy emphasis on the characters.
Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.
