About Fede Alvarez: Fede Alvarez is an Uruguayan film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his short film Ataque de Pánico! and the Evil Dead reboot.
There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.
I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.