111 Quotes by Leigh Whannell

When I was a kid, 'Robocop' to me was just good guys and bad guys.

I like pointing the camera at the actors and letting them fight. Don't let the camera do the fighting for you, and don't let the camera give them the adrenaline hit. Let the people in the frame do that.

Once I have a story idea I like it doesn't even matter to me what genre it is, I'm just so happy to have one.

What I feel like science fiction fans respond to is just people trying to hit them with something new, something they haven't seen. And if you do that you'll be okay.

The most fun part of making a horror movie is watching it with an audience.

Any movie that deals with an AI computer voice stands in the long, long shadow of '2001.'

I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm like, 'what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?'

You know, by the time you get to the fourth film in a franchise you're really mining for something different. You're really looking for a way to go about things that the audience hasn't already seen.

I do feel like in filmmaking you are largely in control of the perception of you. If you want to be seen as the comedic person you've got to write a comedy and go after that.