40 Ruben Fleischer Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ruben Fleischer

American Director

Born: Oct 31, 1974

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I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking. Ruben Fleischer

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Yeah, I feel lucky to have the opportunity to try different things. Ruben Fleischer

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Sure, I came up under Mike White, and Miguel Arteta; I was Mike White's assistant on 'Dawson's Creek.' Ruben Fleischer

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I started out as an assistant to a director on two movies, Miguel Arteta. The movies I worked on were 'Chuck and Buck' and 'The Good Girl.' I didn't even know I wanted to be a director until I started working with Miguel. Ruben Fleischer

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Traditionally in zombie movies, one of the main characters dies. Ruben Fleischer

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Some time after 'Gangster Squad,' after I'd made a couple other movies, I was like, 'In retrospect that 'Zombieland' experience was about as good as it can get, both between the cast and the world of the movie and the way it was received.' I was like, 'We should probably do another 'Zombieland.' Ruben Fleischer

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I've always been fascinated by history. Ruben Fleischer

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I've definitely pitched some viral ideas and do have a pretty good understanding of the Web. Ruben Fleischer

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I've had a really hard time dealing with 35mm. I greatly prefer HD. Ruben Fleischer

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And my idols in music videos are people like Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze and Johnathan Glazer and David Fincher and that's always kind of been my reference point in music video and commercial directors. Ruben Fleischer

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Zombies are kind of a perennial. Ruben Fleischer

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Yeah, I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' Ruben Fleischer

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I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies. Ruben Fleischer

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Like, I've worked on movies where you go in every day and you know that what you're shooting isn't very good to start with and then you have to figure it out, and that's way harder. Ruben Fleischer

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I've got to give a lot of credit to my cinematographer, Chung-hoon Chung, who is a master and among other things shot 'Old Boy,' which is a very famous single-take fight scene. He's really a true master. Ruben Fleischer

What's great about 'Spy Hunter' is that we have an amazing title, an awesome car, and a great theme song, and we can use that to launch a new franchise that hopefully will compete with the other ones but just be kind of the more fun, video game version of a spy movie. Ruben Fleischer

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I feel like a zombie movie is kind of like the gold to hear movie. Ruben Fleischer

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I definitely never intended to do a zombie movie. Ruben Fleischer

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As far as 'Venom,' we took some license with this because I don't think we know a lot about him from his days on planet Klyntar in the comic. But in our movie we thought maybe he could also be somebody who's a little bit of a loser, a loner, and doesn't love being subordinate. Ruben Fleischer

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I love music videos, and I think maybe it's my favorite format. Ruben Fleischer

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I have a music-video background, and I feel like the responsibility of a music-video director is to do something that hasn't been done before in a really cool visual way. So much innovation has come in filmmaking through music videos. Ruben Fleischer

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Venom is such a great character, it will be fun to see who he tangles with along the way. Ruben Fleischer

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I basically went from finishing 'Venom.' I had a week off with my family. And then went straight into prep on 'Zombieland 2.' Ruben Fleischer

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