111 Quotes by Leigh Whannell

I do try and keep my scripts quite economical.

I always want to fulfill genre expectations and think that should be the bedrock of any film - then you can layer in thematics.

I was influenced by people like David Fincher and William Friedkin, and these directors who kinda paint their films with these dark shades.

I think horror is a genre that can be quite good to women.

A lot of times when a film is a success, the fans of that film take ownership of it - it becomes their property.

I've actually written a children's film called 'The Myth,' which you could say is like a big 'Harry Potter'-esque fantasy for kids, and that's a film I would love to see get made. That's a dream project of mine.

It's a weird little anomaly about horror films in that the more money and noise you have, the less scary it gets.

One of our film lecturers, one of the guys teaching the course, said to the departing film class, 'No one in this room is going to make it, as a filmmaker.' I have no idea why he said that.

I think, what happened with 'Dead Silence' is that other people told us that we should be doing that and now that I look back, I realize, 'should' is not a word that comes into an art. It's whatever you're feeling like doing.