Occupation: Film Director Birth: March 4, 1965
It's all based around the idea that basically VW cars are space age. They're the worst cars to use in action movie, because all the things you want t….
I always run the stories by Capcom. They read the scripts and give their comments. I would never want to kill a character that they really want to us….
There was a lot of pressure on me as a filmmaker to raise the bar and do better than before so, you know, I put a lot of thought and energy, that's f….
You really feel like you're on the cutting edge and you know you are because all the camera equipment you take for granted doesn't exist for 3-D. So ….
I like alternating commercials with movies, because it keeps the pace up. You can't slack on a commercial. You need to go fast. That's a terrific pie….
These commercials, I directed them all from inside the tracking vehicle, so I was traveling about 85mph most of the time, so there wasn't really anyo….
I'm a very collaborative person, so that's not the way I work any way. Once VW got over the idea that I was going to blow their cars up, then we shot….
I started doing commercials in 2008 right after we released Death Race, and the reason was that I spent two years prepping Death Race and building al….
My approach has always been to put 100% into the movie I'm making right now. I think sometimes filmmakers put too much thought into the grand franchi….
I think people were a little nervous to work with me to start with, because the movies I've done they thought that I wouldn't be able to control myse….
Commercials are also any opportunity to meet new crew and work with new kind of rigs. You can explore working with different people without having to….
The first job I did was Volkswagen, we shot it in Long Beach, and it was like they won multiple awards with it and they were super excited about it a….
I had this movie, Death Race, that was a passion project for me that I'd had in development for almost ten years..
When people see what real 3D looks like, they'll go, "Oh, that's why I spend an extra $5 a cinema ticket. That's worth it!".
I'm very impressed and the next movie I do I'm definitely going to use a lot of drones in it, because they're very light and flexible and fast, and t….
What happened with Final Destination was that the movie was in post-production for a long time and I think they changed a lot of the deaths, so a lot….
I find it terribly distracting in movies when people do accents, I must say, unless it's terribly serious and the story is rooted in South Africa and….
What makes a mockery of a lot of these 3D conversions, where they're shot in 2D and converted to 3D. Having laid a real 3D movie, you realize that it….
Interestingly it's when you come to the comedy, that's where a lot of the discussion is. It's like ten people sitting around talking about what is fu….
When you're writing it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea. It's nice- that again, is another nice thing about b….
Death Race was a very modern action movie and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and ….