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Sometimes you can get stuck doing the same kind of thing over and over again, and then there's a certain moment in your life when you say, 'Wait, there's all this other stuff in me and all this other life.' ”
All we can do in life is push through the things that make us afraid and try to be better. ”
Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively. ”
I really feel like the horror genre is capable of so much. Especially as an in-theater experience, something you watch with other people. It can do so much. ”
My first experience in a movie theater was Dick Tracy. There was a scene with a guy with a Tommy gun and a wall of fire behind him. I panicked, screamed, and jumped out of my seat. And I ran six New York city blocks, running into the street and almost got hit by a bunch of cars and had my mom chasing after a panic-stricken four-year-old. ”
With 'Hereditary', I wanted to make a film about what bothers me about life. ”
A great horror film works as a communal experience more than almost anything else, except for maybe a comedy. That's something that I've experienced, just taking this movie around and watching it with audiences. ”
The love of my life? I'm much too young to answer that question. ”
I haven't had the occasion to meet Adele. She lives in England. So when I'm flying, or when she comes over here, perhaps we'll have a chance. I think she's a very fine singer, a very strong writer and performer. ”
I've grown up with racism my entire life. I've been bullied, sent to the hospital, beat up, I've been called a Chink and a Gook. Every single racial slur an Asian person can be called, I've been called it. ”