Alexandre Aja
Alexandre Aja
Alexandre Ajais a French film director better known for his work in various horror films. Aja rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film Haute Tension. He has also directed the horror films The Hills Have Eyes, Mirrors, Piranha 3Dand Horns...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth7 August 1977
CountryFrance
Alexandre Aja quotes about
important stories approach
When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
hills traumatic
I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'
hard
A movie like 'The Last House On The Left' would be very hard to do in Europe.
hard slasher
In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.
interesting challenges finding-yourself
When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.
thinking trying filmmaker
Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
creative challenges trying
It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.
fun play interesting
It's always very interesting to bet who's going to go first and who is going to have the most unbelievable death. It's always fun to play with that and create more expectation. It's an interesting part of horror movie.
character people sides
I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.
inspiration thinking trying
I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.
blood people use
You have to be realistic in the use of blood in the movies. There is a little bit more than a gallon in a human being. If you have a few thousand people, that makes a lot of blood. I'm very realistic in my use of blood.
strong believe character
Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them?
horror-genre people scary
In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.
running people marketing
Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles.