Max Landis Quotes

I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public’s idea of this myth comes from a million different places… I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.

Chronicle 2 has become this question of, ‘How do we all make a movie that we all respect?’ And that’s true to what ‘Chronicle’ is. There’s no one at the studio who wants to make a bad movie. They all want to make a good movie just as much as I do.

The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

What it comes down to is I don’t mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn’t, but the reason that he doesn’t is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

What’s special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

‘Pied Piper’ came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not ‘dark,’ per se.

Pied Piper’ came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not ‘dark,’ per se.

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.