Occupation: Film Director Birth: April 18, 1974
I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent..
I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage..
When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me..
I think when I was getting into directing, or wanting to be a director, when I was a teenager, the two films that really inspired me were Raising Ari….
I don't want to get them in trouble for crimes in the early '90s - but there was usually like one pub that was the soft touch in terms of you could g….
Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hi….
I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened….
The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off f….
I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wante….
It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "….
Hot Fuzz in a strange way, for me, summons up the spirit of watching R-rated films that I was too young to watch. I was 14, 13 maybe, when Robocop ca….
Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on..
I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, y….
In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers and the films that you just think you'v….
I call it Inherent Twice because I am looking forward to seeing it again..
There are things that are about the entire genre, so it's weird when you look on Wikipedia and people say, "The scene where Angel grabs his fist is f….
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looki….
Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas a….
Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you….
I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local.".
The script and the performances and the style all clicked..