Jonathan Levine Quotes
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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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The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.
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I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.
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I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies.
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Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.
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I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror movies are a great way to go.
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I like a pretty relaxed, fun set. Everyone knows they can bring whoever they want and hang out.
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I used to drive a convertible around L.A. a lot.
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I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
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I was actually shooting 'Warm Bodies' on the day that '50/50' came out, which I don't recommend to other filmmakers because I was sort of a wreck. Actually, it was good for me, because I had work to do, so I couldn't obsess all day and be checking how '50/50' was doing!
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I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.
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For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like.
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I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.
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'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.
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'Purple Rain' is probably the best soundtrack.
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I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?
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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.