Author Profile
Ruben Fleischer
1974 • American • Director
60
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Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesSome 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
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
You know, duality has always been a strong theme throughout 'Venom'-focused stories, whether it's in the comics or in movies, and that's something I think that Tom Hardy's played with in a lot of his work.— Ruben Fleischer
If you've loved a girl your entire life and you've been afraid to tell her, don't wait because you never know what might happen.— Ruben Fleischer
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
Zombie purists don't even call our zombies zombies, because to be a zombie you have to be undead. That's something zombie purists can fight about for years and years to come.— Ruben Fleischer
Bill Murray, we've got to get people worthy to be on the screen with him, as opposed to just a bunch of random... with no disrespect... but a bunch of random local actors.— Ruben Fleischer
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
I haven't done a movie without a member of the original cast of 'Zombieland' - they've all been in every movie I've done.— Ruben Fleischer
I thought 'I Am Legend' did a really great job of it, and 'Omega Man,' that concept of an empty world.— Ruben Fleischer
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