Tag Archives: Jon Watts

There are so many great John Hughes movies covering so many different genres. You can pull so much from him. Jon Watts

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie. Jon Watts

Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like […]

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life. Jon Watts

It doesn't matter whose idea it is or where it came from or when it arrived in the process. The best idea is the best idea no matter what. Jon Watts

I love 'River's Edge.' Jon Watts

You get really scrappy when you're making things for zero dollars, and you just have to keep thinking like that. It's not like, 'Oh, we now have a little bit more money, let's do things differently.' If you just keep boiling it down to the simplest possible way to make it, I think that always […]

There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary. Jon Watts

I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you. Jon Watts

I didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.' Jon Watts