Mark Waters
Mark Waters
Mark Stephen Watersis an American screenwriter, director and producer. Waters is perhaps best known for directing the comedies Freaky Fridayand Mean Girls...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 June 1964
CityWyandotte, MI
CountryUnited States of America
comedy drama pace played speed sports
Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.
dreadful infected mortal movies
The one thing about 'Beautiful Creatures,' 'The Host' and 'The Mortal Instruments,' which are all well-made movies, is that they were all infected with a dreadful sincerity.
envision plays
Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?
awareness boiling emotion finite heartbreak high movies pot realize school time
Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.
genre likes people shake
My brother is a screenwriter. He likes to say, 'I like to take on a genre when it's dying, because then people are ready for you to shake it up a little bit.'
effects imagery motion
I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and things like that. But never done, like, computer-generated imagery in action.
directing piece realized relinquish
Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.
women
I find women much more interesting than dudes.
attempt considered dubious growing love moral otherwise sports stems
I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
teen
After 'Freaky Friday,' another teen movie was not on my playlist.
certainly great humor movies
The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.
everybody happens imagine personal trying visual
I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.
basically certain existed falling knew love totally
'Twilight' was about a naive person who knew nothing of a certain world, basically discovering that this world existed and totally being indoctrinated into it and falling in love with a vampire, which is interesting.
giving people missing
People need to be given enough so that they feel like they're not missing something. There's a thing that you have when you watch a movie where, if you feel like you're not following and you're going to get tested on it later, you're going to get disengaged. So, you have to give people just enough information, so that they're able to keep up with the story.