Fede Alvarez Quotes

"There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me."

"It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining."

"I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time."

"As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining."

"Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh."

"I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft."

"'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult."

"PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that."

"Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way."

"In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill."

"A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring."

"If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way."

"I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it."

"I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy."

"I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that."

"There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that."

"I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision."

"As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience."

"In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer."

"I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do."

"'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies."