Fede Alvarez
Fede Alvarez
Fede Alvarez sometimes Federico Álvarez is an Uruguayan film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his short film Ataque de Pánico! and the Evil Dead reboot...
NationalityUruguayan
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth9 February 1978
CountryUruguay
over-you directors shoulders
When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.
blessing talking ideas
You can make a film with a phone and a computer if you want, if you have the time. So it's a world that is saturated with films and all kind of stuff, so it's such a blessing to be able to make a film and people care, and even if they say that it's a bad idea, at least they care and they're talking about it.
care firsts filmmaker
Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.
cutting directors film
Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.
cutting stuff firsts
Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and then you start cutting stuff out.
moving character stories
That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.
children stories sometimes
Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.
dirty thinking people
There's so much stuff going on behind the cameras. Sometimes people think these things are done certain ways and when you watch that you see how hard and down and dirty it was.
inspiration kids thinking
In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.
inspired remakes knows
I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake.
heart way hollywood
Every day I spend in Hollywood I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
way sound film
For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.
want panic-attacks sci-fi
Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale.
thinking demand horror
If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.