Ari Aster - The nice thing about a horror movie is that...

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

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Author Profession: Director

Nationality: American

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Woody Allen, Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, David Lynch

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About, Go, Horror, Horror Movie, Looking, Movie, Nice, Nice Thing, People, Thing, Unsettled

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The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you're telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre.

Beauty You Story Need

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.

Death I Am Fear You

'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I'm never affected by anything if I'm not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening.

Family Me People Important

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

Me Writing Stage First

I really feel like the horror genre is capable of so much. Especially as an in-theater experience, something you watch with other people. It can do so much.

Experience You People Feel

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

Family Friends Betrayal More

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

Filmmaking About Anyway Catharsis

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

You Pain Sometimes View

I love Lars von Trier. 'Dogville' is my favourite movie of the last 20 years. 'Nymphomaniac' and 'Melancholia' aren't quite as exciting as 'The Kingdom', 'Breaking the Waves', or 'The Idiots', but I'll always love him for being him.

Love Waves Always Being

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.

Me Great Parents Dad

With 'Hereditary', I wanted to make a film about what bothers me about life.

Life Me Film About

I don't necessarily consider myself a horror filmmaker.

Myself Horror Filmmaker Consider

My first experience in a movie theater was Dick Tracy. There was a scene with a guy with a Tommy gun and a wall of fire behind him. I panicked, screamed, and jumped out of my seat. And I ran six New York city blocks, running into the street and almost got hit by a bunch of cars and had my mom chasing after a panic-stricken four-year-old.

Experience Fire City Gun

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.

Best Me Heart You

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