Matt Reeves
Matt Reeves
Matthew George "Matt" Reevesis an American film writer, director and producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth27 April 1966
CityRockville Centre, NY
CountryUnited States of America
imagination terror
People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
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I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.
imagination terror tool
It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
amazing frustrated intelligence language learn sign son spoken understand
I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.
blair ellen half linda soup stuff
When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.
amazing encounters particular third trailer weird
When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, 'What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?'
would-be fiction horror
I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.
dvds ideas choices
There's something about seeing a movie that you like, and being able to see the scenes that didn't make it, just as a window into the process of how choices are made and how a movie is made. To me, the idea of getting to have the scenes on the DVD is very exciting.