Occupation: Film Director Birth: March 4, 1965
The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change of pace for you." And, I'm like, "….
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 ….
We've been working on the visual effects for a year, so we're trying to raise the bar. Stuff will absolutely come out at the screen, but it will abso….
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 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….
I was excited about the fourth movie I guess conceptually because, what I felt we should do it, we should try to make it a conceptual jump like Termi….
Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight ans….
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….
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….
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 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….
When that technology becomes widespread and it's on every car on the freeways, it's going to save so many lives. Especially in America, so many peopl….
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….
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….
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 ….
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….
Every movie is a commitment of a year or a year and a half. Commercials are much faster than that because they're much more contained. You can get in….
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….
There's something very terrifying about that and very primal about it. It's my belief that what horror does for people is that it provides that prima….
I really believe in 3-D. I really think it is the wave of the future for cinema..
I went for a more classical approach to filmmaking with lots of dolly, track and cranes, and slightly slower, more choreographed fight moves, so you ….