Jonathan Levine Quotes
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I really like using genre to tell a story about characters but also use it as a Trojan horse to tell social or cultural commentary. That's where the best stuff, especially in the zombie genre, comes out of.
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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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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'm always walking around with headphones on, creating my own soundtracks to whatever the day is. I think I have a poppy sensibility.
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To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.
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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 have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
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Zombies have always had a lot of built-in social commentary.
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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 used to drive a convertible around L.A. a lot.
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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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'Purple Rain' is probably the best soundtrack.
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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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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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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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After 'Mandy Lane,' I didn't really know what to do because I didn't know anyone who'd made a feature yet.