Latest Oren Peli Quotes from Interviews

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• Usually I don't find gore or slasher films scary. What works for me is the slower build where you are tightening the noose around the situation until you are running out of options and then really have no idea what to do.

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  Running, Ideas, Scary

  "‘Chernobyl Diaries’ & ‘Paranormal Activity’ Writer/Producer Oren Peli". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. May 25, 2012.

• I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind.

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  Fun, Mind, Horror

  "‘Chernobyl Diaries’ & ‘Paranormal Activity’ Writer/Producer Oren Peli". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. May 25, 2012.

• Really it's always things that scare me like loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen... Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.

  Oren Peli

  Loss, Roots, Scary

• In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.

  Oren Peli

  War, Years, Europe

  "‘Chernobyl Diaries’ & ‘Paranormal Activity’ Writer/Producer Oren Peli". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. May 25, 2012.

• Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines - so I think that's always going to be something I like.

  Oren Peli

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "‘Chernobyl Diaries’ & ‘Paranormal Activity’ Writer/Producer Oren Peli". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. May 25, 2012.