Happy Birthday: Gore Verbinski

Gore Verbinski

Born: March 16, 1964 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

I like horror movies and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they’re much more liberating because you don’t really have to apply a very strict logic. You can experiment a lot more with sound and image. — on making a horror film.

Naomi’s great. She’s completely dedicated to her performance and not to her image. That process allows her to become Rachel in this movie and go to some darker areas that I think a lot of actors wouldn’t feel comfortable doing. — on Naomi Watts and her performance in “The Ring”

I think “The Weather Man” is one of my favorite experiences just because when you work on a film that costs a lot less money you get to say,
‘Hey, this movie isn’t for you, and it’s not for you either. And it’s okay that you don’t like it.’ Because you don’t spend $100 million and you don’t need everybody to like your movie. And I think that’s incredibly liberating. People talk about four quadrant movies all the time but those used to be accidents, like, ‘Wow 12-year-olds are going and 26-year-olds are going!’ Now it’s an algorithm.

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