Quotes by Oren Peli

Oren Peli

After I watched ‘The Exorcist’ I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn’t even watch ‘Ghostbusters’ until I was much older.

Demon

Ghost

Watches

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

Borrowing

Matter

Originals

Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you’re watching people react rather than actors reading lines – so I think that’s always going to be something I like.

People

Reading

Thinking

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with ‘Paranormal Activity.

Paranormal

Software

Trade

Don’t know if I’m a nerd – I’m more of a geek.

Geek

Knows

Nerd

Even if you look at the ‘Paranormal Activity’ movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that’s also to some degree what we tried to do in ‘Chernobyl Diaries.

Crazy

Degrees

People

Even when I was making the first ‘Paranormal Activity,’ I didn’t tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you’re doing something.

Firsts

Gains

World

For a found-footage-style movie, there’s a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it’s real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

Real

Style

Way

Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn’t really scare me. I’d say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don’t know what it is. Is there something there or not?

Scare

Skins

Wall

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I’m motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

Believe

Want

Way

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Acting

Answers

Anticipation

Anxiety

Apples

Architecture

Attention

Baby

Balance

Believe

Bizarre

Body

Bonus

Borrowing

Cds

Challenges

Character

Chasing

Crazy

Degrees

Demon

Different

Dirty

Drama

Dvds

Enjoy

Europe

Facts

Findings

Fire

Firsts

Fun

Gains

Geek

Ghost

Giving

Hbo

Horror

Ideas

Imagination

Ipods

Kind

Knowing

Knows

Loss

Luck

Lucky

Matter

Mind

Mysterious

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Quotes by Oren Peli

Oren Peli

After I watched ‘The Exorcist’ I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn’t even watch ‘Ghostbusters’ until I was much older.

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you’re watching people react rather than actors reading lines – so I think that’s always going to be something I like.

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with ‘Paranormal Activity.

Don’t know if I’m a nerd – I’m more of a geek.

Even if you look at the ‘Paranormal Activity’ movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that’s also to some degree what we tried to do in ‘Chernobyl Diaries.

Even when I was making the first ‘Paranormal Activity,’ I didn’t tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you’re doing something.

For a found-footage-style movie, there’s a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it’s real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn’t really scare me. I’d say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don’t know what it is. Is there something there or not?

I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I’m motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

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