At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.
That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.
I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.
We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.
I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.
Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.
There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.
What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that is mysterious and menacing, and doesn't quite look like what we've seen before.
I created my own concept art and went in and did a 90-minute presentation that cost me a lot of money.And, the great thing is though, when I got the job, they had to buy all of it from me, because one of the set pieces in the middle of the movie was the scene I wrote, and they needed to own everything because a lot of it ended up being the movie we made, so I got all my money back. I was committed. I was going to outspend every competing director.
I don't want to be a mind rapist!
If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.
My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.
I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.
Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.
