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Panos Cosmatos

Canadian Director

Born: 1974

Black Films Love Me Think You

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I've always liked the idea of merging esoteric art cinema with down-and-dirty exploitation films. Panos Cosmatos

Art Cinema Exploitation Films Idea Merging Liked Always Esoteric

In the night there's sometimes a sort of cursed quality to the Pacific Northwest. Panos Cosmatos

Quality Sometimes Sort Northwest Cursed Pacific Night

I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way. Panos Cosmatos

Long Guess Way Bit Long Way Delusion Go Little Little Bit

Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film. Panos Cosmatos

Depression Grief First Emotion Volcanic Outward Came Wanted Film

Mythologies are violent things, and to be true to them, you have to go to primal territory. Panos Cosmatos

You Be True Primal True Territory Go Them Things Violent

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane. Panos Cosmatos

Alone Me Writing Black Insane Going Room Rainbow

Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker. Panos Cosmatos

Myself Science Think Horror Like Well Science Fiction Just Fiction Filmmaker

The way I work is I'll basically become kind of fixated on a very stripped-down genre, like revenge or something like that, and just start layering on top of that and entering in thoughts and ideas, and then the story just kind of builds up that way. Panos Cosmatos

I've been watching films my whole life and am completely obsessed with them. Panos Cosmatos

Life Films Obsessed Am Been Them Whole Watching

I taught myself filmmaking on my own. Panos Cosmatos

Myself Own My Own Taught Filmmaking

We moved around a lot when I was younger. I never really felt at home until we moved to Canada, but even then, I always felt strangely out of place and alien. Panos Cosmatos

Home Alien Out Never Until Around Felt Always Lot Canada Moved Place Younger Then Really Strangely Even

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with heavy metal, Van Halen, Motley Crue. The older I got, my tastes widened. I always felt an attraction to the attitudes of punk; also punk filmmakers, like Richard Kern. Panos Cosmatos

I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had suppressed my grief about my mother dying. In retrospect I realise I started writing 'Mandy' as a sort of antidote to that, to sort of express those emotions, to purge that grief. Panos Cosmatos

Grief Writing Emotions Mother Black Suppressed Think Way Those About Purge Had Abstract Retrospect Sort Metaphorical Very Antidote Dying Realise Express Expressing Rainbow Started

I have a long, complicated history with horror. Panos Cosmatos

History Complicated Long Horror

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form. Panos Cosmatos

You Think Onscreen Shape Never Like Knowing Sure Making Any Form Plague Much Avoiding Appear Film Things

I try to look at the films as I make them from a distance, in a way. I think of them as kind of pop culture artefacts. I'll often make posters and tag lines as I'm working on them, and not just conceive of them as a story I'm going to tell, but as a whole, a piece - a whole object that exists in the pop culture realm. Panos Cosmatos

Culture Try Think Films Distance Way Tell Kind Posters Object Tag Conceive Look Piece Make Lines Exists Going Often Just Story Them Pop Realm Working Pop Culture Whole

Certain things just rub me the wrong way. Panos Cosmatos

Me Way Wrong Wrong Way Just Certain Certain Things Things Rub

I think you have to be wise and know your limitations and know how to work within them. Panos Cosmatos

Work You Wise Think Know Within Limitations How Them Your

1984 is such an iconic, loaded year in so many ways. Panos Cosmatos

Year Ways Iconic Many Loaded

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