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Film Courage: What is your standard for every movie that you make?
Anthony DiBlasi, Filmmaker: I have a high standard. I feel like any film I’m going to make I don’t want anyone to question what the budget was. I think you have to know your limitations and make sure that people are watching the scene and they’re like Oh, this is good if for a low-budget movie or for an indie movie. I try to make sure the production value is as high as a big studio production. If you can’t overextend yourself. I think that’s what a lot of first time filmmakers that’s the mistake they make is they try to make a big movie on a small budget and you can see all the holes in it. You you can’t you can’t allow yourself to be in that situation because an audience will tune out. You can tell a low-budget story and make a good movie.
Should you be doing car chases and and big shootouts if you can’t afford to do it? You shouldn’t do it, you should write a different story. I think that’s a big part of the James Cameron method of of making a movie, you’re always striving to do the best you can you’re going beyond. If you shoot for the stars and you’re not happy with it but you’ve shot so far that for the audience they they won’t see the difference, they’ll be happy with it…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
Anthony DiBlasi graduated film school at Emerson College in Boston MA. Upon moving to Los Angeles he became a protégé of filmmaker/novelist Clive Barker. DiBlasi partnered in Barker’s production company Midnight Picture Show for nearly ten years, serving as a key executive & producer on films such as “Midnight Meat Train” (2008) and “Book of Blood” (2009). DiBlasi made his directorial debut with the psychological thriller “Dread” (2009), a feature film he wrote based on the Clive Barker short story of the same name. “Dread” was released theatrically in January of 2010 and went on to win Best Independent Feature at the 2010 Spike Scream Awards. He directed and co-wrote “Last Shift” a critically acclaimed supernatural horror film released by Magnolia Pictures in 2015. And directed “Extremity” a psychological thriller based on Extreme Haunts, released in 2018 by Epic Pictures.
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