My films typically veer towards the darker side, and I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really enjoy working in genre because people come into the film with certain expectations, and they know the tropes so well that when you turn on those, it can be really shocking. There’s a complaisance that comes with watching those films. Ari Aster Read Quote
In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it’s fun to take that attitude and then to upend it. Ari Aster Read Quote
I like to play with transgression and upending conventions, and I like the idea of rooting genre films in character. Ari Aster Read Quote
Most horror films are made very cynically, and they’re usually made by studios for an audience that they know is there, no matter what they put out. And there are always exceptions – every year, it seems we have a great one coming out. Ari Aster Read Quote
A great horror film works as a communal experience more than almost anything else, except for maybe a comedy. That’s something that I’ve experienced, just taking this movie around and watching it with audiences. Ari Aster Read Quote
I can say that I put a lot of personal feelings into ‘Hereditary’, though I can also say that none of the characters in the film are surrogates for anybody in my family or for myself. Ari Aster Read Quote
I graduated from the American Film Institute in 2010, where I studied as a director, and came out with a few features I really wanted to make. Ari Aster Read Quote
If people felt that they were misled with ‘It Comes at Night,’ they should know that the marketing here is deliberately misleading you in an honest way, in that we’re not hiding what isn’t there: we’re hiding what is there. Ari Aster Read Quote
It’s easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway. Ari Aster Read Quote
