Ben Wheatley
Ben Wheatley
Ben Wheatley is an English director of feature films, TV comedy shows, adverts and idents, animated shorts and internet ads...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
dark thinking doctors
Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark.
thinking people inspire
The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.
long decision way
You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
moving cost stuff
There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.
drama reality detectives
The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.
men thinking spiders
If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
thinking interesting shots
I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.
art real communication
If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.
taste film problem
The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.