For me, ‘Jaws’ is much more of an adventure movie, but when it’s scary, it’s terrifying. When it’s funny, it’s hilarious. When there’s drama, it’s the most sincere stuff on screen. When there’s adventure, there’s swashbuckle. It’s all those things. Dan Trachtenberg Read Quote
John Goodman is like the Jackie Chan of acting. Any prop that you put in front of him, he’s going to take advantage of it in some peculiar way. Dan Trachtenberg Read Quote
I love thrillers – ‘Dead Calm’ is one of my favourite movies of all time. Dan Trachtenberg Read Quote
I never really lost touch with video games. Even while shooting ’10 Cloverfield Lane,’ I brought my PlayStation with me, the most portable of all the consoles, and was playing every night. Dan Trachtenberg Read Quote
My family went Intellivision instead of Atari. I would go over to my friends’ houses to play their Ataris and was so jealous of that. I don’t remember them ever being jealous that I had the Intellivision. Dan Trachtenberg Read Quote
Before we understood that houses shift just over time because the ground is moving, the creaks in a house were assumed to be apparitions, or ghosts. Before we understood that we live on a planet, and there are others, the only answers to where we came from had to be something supernatural. Dan Trachtenberg Read Quote
I don’t think a lot of people would spot the video-game influences in ’10 Cloverfield Lane.’ People think it’s just a Hitchcockian mystery. And I was heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, for sure. But for a generation prior to mine, that would be the sole influence. Since I grew up playing video games, I drew so much inspiration from that world. Dan Trachtenberg Read Quote
The reason I think we hold films like ‘The Sixth Sense’ and ‘Citizen Kane’ in such high regard is those are movies that were amplified by their twists but were already bringing the goods. Dan Trachtenberg Read Quote
I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne. Dan Trachtenberg Read Quote
I used to review games on ‘The Totally Rad Show,’ and the best thing about that was I would finish games. Now, it’s become challenging for me to actually sit through an entire game. I tend to get excited about the next shiny thing. Dan Trachtenberg Read Quote
