I know a lot of people who hate the ending of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and wish that it was left ambiguous. Ari Aster Read Quote
I love the horror genre. I consider myself a genre filmmaker. I love genre, but I think there’s a certain amount of complacency that comes with watching a genre film; people know what the devices are. They know what the tropes are. They know the conventions. Ari Aster Read Quote
I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really like working in genre because people come into the films with certain expectations. They know the tropes so well that, when you turn on those, it can be shocking because there’s a complacency that comes with watching those films. Ari Aster Read Quote
Sometimes you want pain to be acknowledged and not whitewashed – or erased by some exceptionalist point of view. Ari Aster Read Quote
The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled. Ari Aster Read Quote
A betrayal in a family is much more devastating than a betrayal among friends, or even lovers. Ari Aster Read Quote
Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn’t practice very actively. Ari Aster Read Quote
When I was 13 years old, I was obsessed with horror films. I even had, like, a binder that I filled with badly copied images from the Internet of, like, ‘Pinhead and Basket Case.’ Ari Aster Read Quote
My first experience in a movie theater was Dick Tracy. There was a scene with a guy with a Tommy gun and a wall of fire behind him. I panicked, screamed, and jumped out of my seat. And I ran six New York city blocks, running into the street and almost got hit by a bunch of cars and had my mom chasing after a panic-stricken four-year-old. Ari Aster Read Quote
