Film Quotes by Panos Cosmatos

I don't know if I'm a sequels kind of person. I prefer each film to have its own unique identity.

— Panos Cosmatos

The last thing on earth I wanted to do was make a movie that plays directly to a sort-of frat boy audience,…

— Panos Cosmatos

I want my films to be very tactile, visually and sonically.

— Panos Cosmatos

My goal from the very beginning was to make very visually lush, juicy films that you can really sink your teeth into.…

— Panos Cosmatos

Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film.

— Panos Cosmatos

A huge part of my writing process is listening to music as I write, almost creating an unofficial soundtrack to the film…

— Panos Cosmatos

I just love sitting in a theater watching a film and the grain is like boiling and it feels completely alive like…

— Panos Cosmatos

Well, I think if you're telling a story, a three act structure will just naturally emerge out of it. But I also…

— Panos Cosmatos

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things…

— Panos Cosmatos

If I'm going to sell out, I'm going to sell out all the way, so a bid by the studio would be…

— Panos Cosmatos

Well, I'm really interested in the idea of making genre films, but movies have a much more personal undercurrent to them and…

— Panos Cosmatos

The thing I do miss about the way some sequels were in the past was that each film felt like its own…

— Panos Cosmatos

Well, I think it's important to have some kind of a narrative engine that pushes the audience through the landscape. But I…

— Panos Cosmatos

There was a time in my life when I would literally go see every single film that came out in the theaters.…

— Panos Cosmatos

I try to look at the films as I make them from a distance, in a way. I think of them as…

— Panos Cosmatos