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You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.


You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.


We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.


We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.


It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.


You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.


You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.


We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.


This is really a difficult time to be in films.


It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.


In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.


I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.


I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.


I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.


I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.


I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.


Just making a good movie is hard to do.


I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.


I put heavy emphasis on the characters.


I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.