A lot of the reasons why people are annoyed at found footage movies is because people look at it like it's easy and that they could do it, too.
Jason BlumI love being the underdog. It's one of the reason I like making horror movies, because a lot of people don't like them or are prejudiced against them. So it's one of the many reasons I like horror and it's also the reason I like low budget, because it automatically makes us the underdog.
Jason BlumI found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
Jason BlumHorror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.
Jason BlumDirectors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.
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