Leigh Whannell

Director

1977-01-17

Quotes by Leigh Whannell

• Supernatural films allow you to bend the rules of time and space - that's really fun, especially for screenwriters who often get shot down for logic reasons.

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• I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm like, 'what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?'

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• I felt the violence in 'Upgrade' was necessary because I wanted to show what a computer was capable of.

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• Creating 'Upgrade' was really something I enjoyed even though it was stressful. I would do it all again.

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• When the whole 'Saw' thing died down, I feel like I had praise withdrawals. I had never been congratulated so much on something in my life. So, it was a really amazing whirlwind when 'Saw' came out.

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• The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.

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• If you look back at a film like 'Dawn of the Dead' - You can either watch it as a straight-up genre film and have fun with zombies being shot, or you can look at it as a metaphor for consumerism. Or a metaphor for the Vietnam war.

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