You get so lost in the making of a film, and you get so fixed on just, like, every tiny detail. If something doesn’t hit the bullseye in the way you wanted, you become obsessed with that, and you get so just lost in that maze of neurotic thinking. Ari Aster Read Quote
The joy of making a genre film is that you have audiences in that place, and it’s a perfect place to start because all it takes is finding ways to startle them out of that complacency and encourage a different kind of engagement. Ari Aster Read Quote
I really feel like the horror genre is capable of so much. Especially as an in-theater experience, something you watch with other people. It can do so much. Ari Aster Read Quote
I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don’t, but there’s no solving it. Ari Aster Read Quote
One reason I think I am able to work with such dark material is the fact I was never really discouraged from making this kind of work. Ari Aster Read Quote
Every single moment in ‘Hereditary’ is linked to a moment in the end for the payoff. I think it has the ability of captivating people the same way that ‘Manchester By the Sea’ did. It has that audience because it’s so wrapped in human drama. Ari Aster Read Quote
Hereditary’ is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it’s in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I’m never affected by anything if I’m not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening. Ari Aster Read Quote
There’s been a lot of aesthetically rich horror films that have come out in the last several years. ‘The Babadook’ is this perfectly paced, beautiful film. ‘The Witch’ is a beautifully made film. ‘Get Out’ is so intelligently written. I feel like there’s so many great things happening right now. Ari Aster Read Quote
I know that I put a lot into ‘Hereditary’, and I’m proud of what it is. Beyond the fact that the film takes its time and asks for a certain amount of patience from the audience – and I hope it rewards that patience by the end – I know that I’m something of an aesthete. I care about aesthetics, and I love filmmaking. Ari Aster Read Quote
