Zitat des Tages von Jeff Baena:
I wanted to do something a little bit more feminine after my second movie, 'Joshy,' which was so masculine.
'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.
I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.
It's so rare when marketing and press doesn't ruin your movie.
Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.
I always knew I wanted to make movies since I was around eleven. I never thought of it as wanting to do straight-up comedy. Even now, I don't see things in terms of genre.
For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.
I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.
I went to film school; I went to NYU film school.
People were always like, 'Oh my God, you're going to be working with your girlfriend? Are you freaking out? Is that going to, like, destroy your relationship?' I think it emboldened the relationship.
When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.
When you have new people coming in and you sort of want to show them the ropes, it's always easier to have people that know the process and are able to sort of just do their thing, and then everyone can kind of follow their lead.
I don't try to make actors play crazy characters. I like where there's a certain element of who they are and truth to their performances.
For me, the whole idea of performance is not being self-aware, and then sort of just experiencing.
When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.
I don't know if it's because my sensitivity is through the roof, but I can't stand contrived dialogue anymore.
If you look at zombie movies throughout history, they're always making adjustments. Even the idea of the virus zombies and the back-from-the-dead zombies... there's been tons of tweaks.
Everything kind of has a message in it.
If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.
My first job after graduating was working with Robert Zemeckis. I got a job a week after graduating and moving to L.A. So I got to work on 'What Lies Beneath' and 'Castaway' as a PA, which is basically like a gopher.
