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Ti West likes movies that leave the ending in the audience’s hands. He worries that fast‑moving plots lose a sense of geography, so he aims to let viewers fill in spaces. He says directing is about feeling what the character experiences, and he even dreams of a film about mixed martial arts.

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Making movies is traumatic.

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I've only had minimum wage jobs or directed movies.

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I like movies that leave things in the hands of the audience.

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If you look at any of my movies I write, direct, edit, and produce them.

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Personally, I like to settle into movies, and that's why I like long title sequences.

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If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.

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I'm sad that ma-and-pa video stores are going, I'm not sad that Blockbuster's gone.

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Pearl' is a really different movie from 'X,' and 'MaXXXine' is a really different movie from X also.

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I love when you see a movie and you go, 'That's a movie by so-and-so,' because I can just feel it.

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It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.

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It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase…

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I do think, even though I've made these genre movies, there's what happens in the movie and then there's what the movie's…

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I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't…

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I am desperately trying to come up with a film project that is related to mixed martial arts. In fact, I would…

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X' was a movie that in some ways was about how independent filmmaking had an effect on people. 'Pearl' in many ways…

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The goal with 'X' was to make you think about filmmaking, and think about horror filmmaking, and hopefully just be like, pumped.

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We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could…

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It's important to let everybody understand where people are at in the movie, in the sense of the landscape. You need people…

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I don't think you want to preach to people. I don't think In A Valley Of Violence, and the same with The…

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For me, I don't think you can have a successful - and by successful I don't mean financially, I mean successful in…

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If 'X' is a movie about someone who wants to get into the movie business from the outside, and 'Pearl' is about…

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Technology has just been the major progression of the last 15 years - instant communication. That stuff has gone so global. That's…

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Tommy Nohilly, who plays Tubby [ Valley of Violence], he came down to see the movie for the first time and I…

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I have a romantic comedy I'd love to make, but I can't get the money for it. It's hard to get people…

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Because everybody is so ADD and everybody is trying to move the plot so fast, there's very little sense of geography in…

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I've had every minimum-wage job known to man - and I don't want to go back to minimum-wage jobs, but I have…

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I don't really get that nervous about whether people like it. You can't do anything about that. It's more technical. You spend…

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There's nothing stopping you from making movies. You can always make and try different things.

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I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's…

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You have to. But I generally try - I'll creep in the back. I'll be outside. I'll pace around. I don't really…

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I'm very proud of both movies, and I'm proud of how the movies are totally different in that you don't need to…

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It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go…

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Many indie movies are fighting for survival in a world full of 'Micro-Budget' films and 200 Million dollar 'tent-pole' blockbusters. Surely there…

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People always ask what makes a good horror movie and it's essentially one big thing-contrast. All of the stuff in the film…

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If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's…

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I always thought of 'X' as one era, and the characters in that era are being affected by the cinema of the…

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I get a lot of movie stars telling me they saw my movie and then I'm like, 'You know I offered that…

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For me, the goal of directing is to feel like you're experiencing what the character is going through, whether they're slowly walking…

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You get to actually make your movie. As a filmmaker, that's the dream. That's why you get up in the morning, to…

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I think you make the movie in your head that you have to make, and you have to get it out of…

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I like movies that leave things in the hands of the audience.

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Much of the stuff I relate to is from the Eighties, at least cinematically.

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You get to actually make your movie. As a filmmaker, that's the dream. That's why you get up in the morning, to be able…

It would be dishonest to say winning an Oscar wouldn't be awesome. I'm sure it would be great, but if it matters all that…

In general, I go to see the stuff that for me is, "Thank God for that actor, he's doing something that I never imagined;…

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back…

I've messed with Ouija boards. And I've snuck into the basement of an abandoned mental hospital that's supposed to be haunted, that kind of…

For me, the goal of directing is to feel like you're experiencing what the character is going through, whether they're slowly walking or running.

It's fun when someone who ordinarily wouldn't watch 'Nightmare on Elm Street 4' is like, 'Well, it's on TV and I'm curious to see…