As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.
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When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.
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I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.
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You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.
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An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.
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I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.
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Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.
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Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
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Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
