Jonathan Levine
Jonathan Levine
Jonathan A. Levineis an American film director and screenwriter. He is probably best known for directing 50/50 in 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 June 1976
CountryUnited States of America
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In community relations, you don't know for years the effect you've had. Building good relations is like nurturing a friendship over years. In a crisis, you can turn to your friend in another ethnic or religious community and say, 'I need your help.' Bill has been just a master at this kind of community building.
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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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It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another.
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I want the police to acknowledge that what they did was wrong. They need to explain to the community why they did this to me.
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I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.
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After that came out in the paper, they wanted me gone, they wanted to get rid of me.
I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
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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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Every charge they brought against me was bogus. The police don't like me and wanted me to leave town. I have done nothing but help the community.
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I kind of viewed '50/ 50' and 'Warm Bodies' both as my next films after 'The Wackness.' In my head, I was just like, 'I'll try the big, fun, adventure-weird movie, and I'll do the small, heartfelt comedy-drama, and one of them will probably work out, and I'll get to work more.'