American - Director | June 18, 1976 -
I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.
Jonathan Levine
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Zombies have always had a lot of built-in social commentary.
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I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we sold it to Harvey Weinstein for a lot of money.
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I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies.
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The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.
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I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?
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I have a lot of friends with bad taste in music - some might say that I have bad taste in music.
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I used to drive a convertible around L.A. a lot.
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My first real television-watching experience was when I watched 'L.A. Law,' like, at 10 o'clock Thursday nights with my parents. They would let me stay up late.
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For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.
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I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.
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That's the great thing about being a director. You have your list of things you have to worry about and things you don't have to worry about. If you can hire someone or cast someone who equates to not having to worry about, it's great!
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