Sean Durkin Quotes

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• What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.
• Filmmaking is a real craft.
• I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.
• I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.
• I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
• I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.
• I went to my first college to play soccer.
• I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.
• I would like to do a sports movie.
• I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.
• It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.
• The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.
• The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
• When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.
• When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.
• When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.
• When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.
• You can't write something to please someone.
• You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.
• A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work…

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