Ari Aster Quotes

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Most horror films are made very cynically, and they’re usually made by studios for an audience that they know is there, no matter what they put out. And there are always exceptions – every year, it seems we have a great one coming out.

Ari Aster

I graduated from the American Film Institute in 2010, where I studied as a director, and came out with a few features I really wanted to make.

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I like to play with transgression and upending conventions, and I like the idea of rooting genre films in character.

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The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.

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A betrayal in a family is much more devastating than a betrayal among friends, or even lovers.

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I know a lot of people who hate the ending of ‘Rosemary’s Baby‘ and wish that it was left ambiguous.

Ari Aster

You get so lost in the making of a film, and you get so fixed on just, like, every tiny detail. If something doesn’t hit the bullseye in the way you wanted, you become obsessed with that, and you get so just lost in that maze of neurotic thinking.

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For me, writing is a part of directing. It’s the first stage of directing.

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I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don’t, but there’s no solving it.

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I got my MFA from AFI as a director in 2010. I’ve had time to make the shorts that I made previous to ‘Hereditary‘ and to kind of build these movies in my head.

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When I was 13 years old, I was obsessed with horror films. I even had, like, a binder that I filled with badly copied images from the Internet of, like, ‘Pinhead and Basket Case.’

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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.

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Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn’t practice very actively.

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It’s easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.

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I have more fun talking about other movies than talking about my own.

Ari Aster

Every single moment in ‘Hereditary’ is linked to a moment in the end for the payoff. I think it has the ability of captivating people the same way that ‘Manchester By the Sea‘ did. It has that audience because it’s so wrapped in human drama.

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These are films that I really love, but I would say I’m not somebody who runs out to every horror film. I avoid most of them. I feel like a lot of them are made very cynically.

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I love Cronenberg so much, especially the films he was doing in the mid to late ’80s and early ’90s, like ‘Naked Lunch‘ and ‘Dead Ringers’.

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I don’t necessarily consider myself a horror filmmaker.

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The joy of making a genre film is that you have audiences in that place, and it’s a perfect place to start because all it takes is finding ways to startle them out of that complacency and encourage a different kind of engagement.

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I’m very fortunate in that my parents are artists. My mom is a brilliant poet… She still is a great visual artist. My dad is a jazz drummer… I’ve been very fortunate in that I’ve had parents who supported and encouraged me and haven‘t really questioned what I’m doing or asked me to question it.

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Sometimes you want pain to be acknowledged and not whitewashed – or erased by some exceptionalist point of view.

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I’m very impressed by films like’ Whiplash’ or what Fincher does, where you get all these different… Where you get all this coverage that’s perfectly linked up. I actually find coverage very confusing. But I love sequencing shots because I know exactly where I am.

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The idea of witches has always scared me because of the idea that there are Machiavellian forces out there that conspire to hurt others. There are people who do not have your best interest at heart and are actively willing to do harm to you and actively sending energy in that direction.

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Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It’s therapeutic.

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