Joe Carnahan
Joe Carnahan
Joseph Aaron "Joe" Carnahanis an American independent film director, screenwriter, producer and actor best known for his films Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, Narc, Smokin' Aces, The A-Team, and The Grey. He also writes and directed some episodes for the NBC television series The Blacklist. He is the brother of screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan and producer Leah Carnahan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth9 May 1969
CountryUnited States of America
carve
In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like 'Breaking Bad' did. Like 'The Wire' did. Like 'Homeland' did.
argue love obviously pleasure
I obviously love 'The Grey'; that was a pleasure to make. It was also very difficult. Listen, I love 'Smokin' Aces.' That was a lot of fun to make. Completely different part of your brain, I guess. Some would argue the part that they don't want you to use.
america great terms
In terms of big spectacle, I thought 'Captain America 2' was phenomenal. I really loved that movie, and it was a great movie as a stand-alone.
bent particular religious spiritual terms
I don't know if I'm the most religious guy, but I think I'm a spiritual man, and these are the things I think about a lot. In terms of the film, I think 'The Grey' is very much a non-denominational kind of film. I don't think it's something that relies on a particular religious bent to tell the story.
creativity mean cases
Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.
break-even needs spending
When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.
aggressors meant-to-be
The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.
ask beyond fathom happens jason journey moment people recorder road tape
I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters?
everest romantic women
If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.
adapt cinematic fox gonna hit john jon met script time trying understood
'The Blacklist' was really right place, right time. I read the script and met with Jon Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, John Fox and John Davis, and we just hit it off. They understood that I was not so much trying to adapt to television, but adapt a cinematic style to the things that we were gonna do.
cast net vast wide
There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.
love
As much as I love Antonioni films, I love the Three Stooges.
beauty seven
You can't stand at the Bellagio and watch these seven story fountains and not go, 'That's something of extraordinary man-made beauty.'
It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows?