Andy Muschietti Quotes

Andy Muschietti

Profession : Director

Birth : August 26, 1973

As much as 'It Chapter One' is a movie about friendship and the power of unified belief, the second part is more about trauma.

Andy Muschietti

Argentina is a bit tough to people. You don't embrace genre film in general. They are more like, in the film community, a bit snobby.

Andy Muschietti

Yeah, I didn't grow up in the '50s like Stephen King so I'm more versed in the '80s and the present day than the '50s.

Andy Muschietti

At the beginning when you're writing and building the beats of the story, everything that you put in there seems very essential to the story. However, when you have the movie finally edited and it's 4 four hours long, you realise that some of the events and some of the beats can be easily lifted but the essence of the story remains intact.

Andy Muschietti

Yeah, my parents exposed me to horror movies when I was like 6 or 7. I mean exposed me in a good way, they didn't mean any harm.

Andy Muschietti

We are a society that really worked to leave our differences behind, and value equality. All these things actually make a community live in harmony.

Andy Muschietti

Casting is a big deal.

Andy Muschietti

Hate crimes are still happening. No matter how evolved we think society is going, there seems to be a winding back, especially in this day and age where these old values seem to be emerging from the darkness.

Andy Muschietti

We live in a world where there's a culture of fear, where some leaders have a strong pull on people, which is exactly what Pennywise does.

Andy Muschietti

I don't have a negative perception of clowns.

Andy Muschietti

I always put a lot of heart in my movies in general, but in 'It' too, I put a lot of heart in it.

Andy Muschietti

Something a lot of people probably don't know is 'Chapter One' did have the idea to make a post-credit scene, which was Beverly Marsh picking up the phone. So, 27 years later, post credit, you would see a phone ringing.

Andy Muschietti

IT Chapter Two' is the story of the Losers as adults 27 years later, but they go back to their memories to retrieve something that is very, very necessary. They have to remember who they were, as well as their amazing bond with each other.

Andy Muschietti

In fact, one of the descriptions of the character in the book is that 'IT' was not very good at replicating human emotions. And that's something that is overlooked in general.

Andy Muschietti

I really didn't want to expand the negative vision of clowns because clowns are not intrinsically scary.

Andy Muschietti

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

Andy Muschietti

I enjoyed clowns when I was a kid going to the circus. Mainly I mean the good clowns, when you go to a circus.

Andy Muschietti

Of course it's always easy when you work with people that worked together, or you work with people that you worked with before, because you develop over years some sort of shorthand of communion that is always very valuable.

Andy Muschietti

I'm a huge fan of the book and Stephen King is one of my big heroes, literary heroes, and I am a fan, and I want to see a movie of 'It.'

Andy Muschietti

I learnt to relax a little more and enjoy the process, which is something I didn't do in my first movie - understandably, I guess.

Andy Muschietti