American - Director | 1964 -
I don't know, maybe I just like to mix it up and have a more of an eclectic need to just try out new things and road test ideas and try out a genre that I haven't done before.
Brad Anderson
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I don't see myself doing any comedies. I like comedies as much as anyone else; I just don't really have a desire to do them.
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My favorite filmmakers are in the Kubrick, Polanski kind of mold. I just like that world. I think it's more cinematic and gets under your skin more.
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I did a lot of traveling after college on trains through India, China, and Russia. I somehow managed to make it back in one piece, and I actually pulled a lot of the anecdotal experiences into the making of 'Transsiberian.'
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I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.
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I don't think of the 'indie film world' as this cohesive kind of world anyhow. It's so disparate: all these different filmmakers seeking financing from many different sources to make different kinds of movies. It's hard to pinpoint a trend, really.
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When I went to Sundance back in 1998, indie film was all the rage, and Miramax was throwing down five or six million dollars for several films each year. Those were the salad days of indie film, and those days are over. I'm not out there worrying too much about it.
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There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.
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No one faith is necessarily superior to another. All explanations are valid and in some respects when it comes to the big mysteries of life.
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As a filmmaker, you just make the movie you want to make, and you sort of put your faith in the distributor to make sure the right people see it.
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I just like stories in which characters are struggling with something, whether it's an external force like in 'Vanishing,' or in 'Session 9,' where it's more of a monster within the mind.
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I find psychological thrillers interesting both dramatically and visually.
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