Fede Alvarez Quotes

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• A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, Blood, Scare

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

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  Fans, Crafts, Film

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with ‘Evil Dead’". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

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  Writing, People, Want

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• There's so much stuff going on behind the cameras. Sometimes people think these things are done certain ways and when you watch that you see how hard and down and dirty it was.

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  Dirty, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Evil, Fans, Horror

  "Director Fede Alvarez Talks Remaking a Classic, Using Gallons of Blood, References to the Original, Sam Raimi’s Involvement, & More On the Set of EVIL DEAD". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

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  People, Laughing, Comedy

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with 'Evil Dead'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Acting, Able, Aspect

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• You can make a film with a phone and a computer if you want, if you have the time. So it's a world that is saturated with films and all kind of stuff, so it's such a blessing to be able to make a film and people care, and even if they say that it's a bad idea, at least they care and they're talking about it.

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  Blessing, Phones, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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• In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

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  Art, Guy, Designer

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with 'Evil Dead'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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• There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.

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  Hate, People, Use

  "First footage from the Evil Dead reboot. What does it mean?". Interview with Meredith Woerner, io9.gizmodo.com. October 16, 2010.

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• As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

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  Fun, Jumping, Directors

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with 'Evil Dead'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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• What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.

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  Horror Genre, Way, Masters

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.

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  Care, Firsts, Filmmaker

  Source: collider.com

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• Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.

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  Cutting, Directors, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and then you start cutting stuff out.

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  Cutting, Stuff, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

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  Moving, Character, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.

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  Children, Stories, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.

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  Inspiration, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake.

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  Inspired, Remakes, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Heart, Hollywood, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.

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  Sound, Way, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale.

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  Want, Panic Attacks, Sci Fi

  Source: collider.com

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• If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.

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  Thinking, Demand, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke. It has to be funny, so usually all the things in the background don't matter.

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  What Matters, Want, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.

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  Matter, Cameras, Fancy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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