American - Director | June 18, 1976 -
Genre is a really great shorthand you can have with an audience. In the same way you can use music to create a connection with an audience, it brings so much of their knowledge of what genre really is to the table. You have a shortcut to connect with them. I really like that.
Jonathan Levine
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I really like using genre to tell a story about characters but also use it as a Trojan horse to tell social or cultural commentary. That's where the best stuff, especially in the zombie genre, comes out of.
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I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.
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In rehearsals, I like to create an honest environment that is kinda free and fun.
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I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.
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After 'Mandy Lane,' I didn't really know what to do because I didn't know anyone who'd made a feature yet.
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I definitely think New York is a very, very vibrant, wonderful city, but I certainly, of course, can't help but miss a lot of the stuff that's no longer there.
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I don't often watch something I've done on TV. Usually, I'll change the channel and watch something else.
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I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that.
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Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly.
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If you know how to shoot a scene, then you know how to shoot an action scene. If you've seen an action movie, and you watched it, and you paid attention to how scenes are constructed and where the camera is and how the camera moves, then you know how to do it.
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I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.
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