Latest Fede Alvarez Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Fede Alvarez

  Horror Genre, Way, Masters

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

  Fede Alvarez

  Squares, Everyday, Telling Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I like to get the audiences cozy in their seats, feeling safe, and suddenly they'll be shocked out of their minds.

  Fede Alvarez

  Feelings, Mind, Cozy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I need to create a whole cinematic experience. I think that's what it takes to get the audience to the theater and justify seeing [a movie] on a big screen. You have to give them a cinematic experience.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, Giving, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I take things from everywhere, and I still haven't figured out where I took [some things] from.

  Fede Alvarez

  Stills, Havens

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've seen a lot of movies that were great and scary, but not particularly fancy in their filmmaking or performance. And they're still scary, and I think a good horror movie should be scary above all things.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, Scary, Fancy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Fede Alvarez

  Matter, Cameras, Fancy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, Honest, Storytelling

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Fede Alvarez

  What Matters, Want, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't want to spoon-feed the audience, like, "This is the funny guy, this is one you hate, this is the one you like." A lot of movies do that. They don't really give you a choice. They show you the jock, and he's an idiot, and everybody has to hate him. You have no choice.

  Fede Alvarez

  Hate, Giving, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think violence in movies, for it to work, you have to use it smartly. People get numb very fast. If you have too much violence in the beginning, it gets to a point where you don't feel it.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, People, Violence

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I really don't like to go for the stereotypes. I try to give you characters that you don't know until you get to know them, and [decide] how you should feel about them.

  Fede Alvarez

  Character, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.

  Fede Alvarez

  Trying, Cameras, Witness

  Source: collider.com

• It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.

  Fede Alvarez

  Believe, Character, Events

  Source: collider.com

• I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.

  Fede Alvarez

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.

  Fede Alvarez

  Blood, Want, Tone

  Source: collider.com

• Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There is danger, and the scares have to kick in the right places with the drama. And you try not to do too much to try to create those moments. Those moments create themselves.

  Fede Alvarez

  Drama, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

• Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.

  Fede Alvarez

  Evil, Fans, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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

  Fede Alvarez

  Care, Firsts, Filmmaker

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Fede Alvarez

  Blessing, Phones, Talking

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Fede Alvarez

  Cutting, Stuff, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Fede Alvarez

  Cutting, Directors, Film

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Fede Alvarez

  Children, Stories, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Fede Alvarez

  Moving, Character, Stories

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Fede Alvarez

  Inspiration, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com