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Film Courage: Anthony, on your website you have a quote “When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.”
Anthony DiBlasi, Filmmaker: My wife wrote that quote.
Film Courage: It’s a great quote. What is this abyss?
Anthony: It was definitely about writing. It’s that process of…she took that picture of me that was on Last Shift when I’m kind of staring over this script and looking into it.
I think it happens in two places. It happens when you’re about to write something. When you’re page one of that screenplay is that first step. You’re staring into that black hole for that white page and it can be anything.
Then I think it happens again when you’re about to shoot the movie and you’re looking at that first page and you’re about to turn this into a living breathing entity. You’re like What will that become? What’s going to climb out of the abyss? is kind of where it comes from because something’s coming out of there. It’s going to be good or bad but something’s coming out of it.
Film Courage: Why do you write out of order?
Anthony: I think it’s a process of the note taking that there are scenes that will pop in your head that are fully fleshed out and it’s also it stops…(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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