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I have a lot of friends with bad taste in music - some might say that I have bad taste in music.

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I used to drive a convertible around L.A. a lot.

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My first real television-watching experience was when I watched 'L.A. Law,' like, at 10 o'clock Thursday nights with my parents. They would let me stay up late.

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For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

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I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.

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That's the great thing about being a director. You have your list of things you have to worry about and things you don't have to worry about. If you can hire someone or cast someone who equates to not having to worry about, it's great!

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Genre is a really great shorthand you can have with an audience. In the same way you can use music to create a connection with an audience, it brings so much of their knowledge of what genre really is to the table. You have a shortcut to connect with them. I really like that.

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I really like using genre to tell a story about characters but also use it as a Trojan horse to tell social or cultural commentary. That's where the best stuff, especially in the zombie genre, comes out of.

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I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.

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In rehearsals, I like to create an honest environment that is kinda free and fun.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: June 18th, 1976

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