Joshua Leonard Quotes & Sayings

“I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.”

“Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.”

“In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.”

“We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.”

“Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.”

“I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.”

“I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.”

“I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.”

“We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.”

“Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.”