As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It’s a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It’s a conundrum to me. It’s hard to explain. It’s an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much. Dylan McDermott Read Quote
I don’t like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it’s curious to me why people do like to be afraid. Dylan McDermott Read Quote
Rosemary’s Baby’ is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening. I’m actually going to work on a movie in February, called ‘Mercy,’ from Jason Blum, who produced the ‘Paranormal Activity’ movies, and there is a similar theme to ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ in the movie. Dylan McDermott Read Quote
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They’re trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television. Dylan McDermott Read Quote
Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything. Dylan McDermott Read Quote
Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year. Dylan McDermott Read Quote
It’s the cable shows that are really the most interesting – ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Breaking Bad,’ those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now. Dylan McDermott Read Quote
You’d see those movie stars on the screen, and say, ‘I want to be that guy.’ Dylan McDermott Read Quote
I’ve tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can’t. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making ‘The Appaloosa’ a good movie. Dylan McDermott Read Quote
