Andy Muschietti Quotes

Andy Muschietti

Profession : Director

Birth : August 26, 1973

The character of 'Mama' is so ambitious in a way that everything I did was always on the verge of being almost funny. So you have to be very careful with that. It's that sort of face that you don't usually see in horror.

Andy Muschietti

I'm an artist. I've been doing storyboards for a long, long time.

Andy Muschietti

It's like my second home, 'It.' And I would like to return to it, because I feel very comfortable with it, and I have an understanding of it, and I'm passionate about it.

Andy Muschietti

Everything that relates to Pennywise and Bob Gray is very cryptic, and it's like that for a reason. Probably the success of that character as a monster, as a villain is because of that crypticness and uncertainty that people have towards him.

Andy Muschietti

Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and talks about all of the treasures of that time, like imagination and belief, that are inevitably lost in adulthood.

Andy Muschietti

When you make a movie, you have to make things denser, you have to build consequentiality.

Andy Muschietti

I think apart from the new spectacle that 'Chapter Two' brings compared to the first one, the scope, scale, bigger canvas, I'm proud of the emotional journey.

Andy Muschietti

I've always been a big fan of Stephen King, especially in my teenage years.

Andy Muschietti

It's a horror movie, but it's quite emotional too, and there's a lot of humor.

Andy Muschietti

Bill Hader, nobody can play Richie like this guy, I think. It was great because, for some reason, 'Chapter Two' was a movie that everyone wanted to be in.

Andy Muschietti

One of the greatest things about the book is that everything we know about 'It,' it's pretty speculative. We see it from the point of view of Loser's and that's what makes it so scary. We never get to know exactly what it is.

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Of course, the whole mythology of the world of 'It' is very attractive to me.

Andy Muschietti

Pet Sematary' is one of my favorite books of Stephen King and I have a deep love relationship with it.

Andy Muschietti

What captivated me about 'The Flash' is the human drama in it.

Andy Muschietti

My approach to Pennywise was, on one hand, I wanted to stay true to the essence of the character but at the same time make it an edgier character that is basically unpredictable and people won't expect everything he comes up with.

Andy Muschietti

Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans for hundreds of years, every 27 years. So you can imagine the amount of material.

Andy Muschietti

You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about - the dark power of adulthood. It's not coincidence all the grown-ups in town are evil. This is not a story about a monster. It's a story about the end of childhood.

Andy Muschietti

I'm very ambitious when it comes to cameos.

Andy Muschietti

The moment you introduce the element of IT, which is an interdimensional evil entity, the presence of the turtle comes with it, as a counterbalance.

Andy Muschietti

Sequels are always tricky.

Andy Muschietti