Being compared to 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' is a huge compliment. — Panos Cosmatos Being Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody who goes horseback riding at sunset, but everybody watches TV and eats. — Panos Cosmatos Everybody Copy Share Image
Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane. — Panos Cosmatos Alone Copy Share Image
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 Audience Copy Share Image
A lot of films mistake convolutedness for complexity. To me, a simple story can be a powerful spine to build around. — Panos Cosmatos Cinema Copy Share Image
I'm too neurotic to ever feel good. If I ever felt good, I think something horrible would happen. — Panos Cosmatos Feel Copy Share Image
I feel happy working in the low-budget realm, doing stuff that is a little bit more esoteric, and personal. — Panos Cosmatos Feel Copy Share Image
I've been watching films my whole life and am completely obsessed with them. — Panos Cosmatos Am Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm a sequels kind of person. I prefer each film to have its own unique identity. — Panos Cosmatos Cinema Copy Share Image
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 Cinema Copy Share Image
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 Avoiding Copy Share Image
We moved around a lot when I was younger. I never really felt at home until we moved to Canada, but even… — Panos Cosmatos Alien Copy Share Image
I might actually be allergic to testosterone. Whenever I've felt a testosterone rush I get, like, sick afterwards, and I feel exhausted… — Panos Cosmatos Allergic Copy Share Image
I just love sitting in a theater watching a film and the grain is like boiling and it feels completely alive like… — Panos Cosmatos Alive Copy Share Image
When I was finally allowed to watch horror in my early teens I think I overdid it, I actually ended up generating… — Panos Cosmatos Broken Copy Share Image
I was, like, 'I really wanna see an Eric Rohmer movie take place in a Bert I. Gordon universe.' Where there's a… — Panos Cosmatos Desire Copy Share Image
My goal from the very beginning was to make very visually lush, juicy films that you can really sink your teeth into.… — Panos Cosmatos Always Copy Share Image
You write a character, but in essence, it's just a concept of what it could be, and then actors come in and… — Panos Cosmatos Actors Copy Share Image
I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had… — Panos Cosmatos Abstract Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to watch horror movies at all. And actually, one of the genesis points for… — Panos Cosmatos Art Copy Share Image
The thing I do miss about the way some sequels were in the past was that each film felt like its own… — Panos Cosmatos Film Copy Share Image
I try to look at the films as I make them from a distance, in a way. I think of them as… — Panos Cosmatos Cinema Copy Share Image
Well, when I was really young and we lived in Sweden, the only films that were around at that point were... We… — Panos Cosmatos Best Copy Share Image
Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker. — Panos Cosmatos Horror Copy Share Image
Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film. — Panos Cosmatos Cinema Copy Share Image
When you're working with an actor who's prepared and brings it when you need it, it's just a very validating creative experience. — Panos Cosmatos Actor Copy Share Image
I've had a VHS collection for many, many years. But I would prefer to watch a movie in the best format possible. — Panos Cosmatos Best Copy Share Image
The male ego is a terrifying, terrifying thing, you know? If it's shattered, it becomes even more dangerous. — Panos Cosmatos Becomes Copy Share Image
In the night there's sometimes a sort of cursed quality to the Pacific Northwest. — Panos Cosmatos Cursed Copy Share Image
Black Rainbow' is about control and your emotions being repressed and controlled, and 'Mandy's' about all a volcanic eruption! — Panos Cosmatos Being Copy Share Image
I think most religious belief structures are essentially like mind viruses. — Panos Cosmatos Belief Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the… — Panos Cosmatos Decade Copy Share Image
