Making movies is like herding cats.
I got my MFA from AFI as a director in 2010. I've had time to make the shorts that I made previous to 'Hereditary' and to kind of build these movies in my head.
I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.
I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.
As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
I want to get a hit record, and I know I can be good in horror movies.
Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street.
I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.
Hollywood movies are seen throughout the world.
My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.
I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.
I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.
But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.
I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.
There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.
The rest of the world may devour Japanese hardware - from Honda Civics to Sony Walkmans - but Japanese software, such as books, movies and recordings, has had little impact outside Japan. The exception is video games.
My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.
