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 come from music videos and commercials, where style is a big part of the whole world. I've always tried to add that to whatever I'm doing.
I've had a really hard time dealing with 35mm. I greatly prefer HD.
I just want to make sure whatever I take on, I can deliver.
I thought 'I Am Legend' did a really great job of it, and 'Omega Man,' that concept of an empty world.
If you have somebody who can just do everything easily, then it's kind of boring. If you're handcuffed to a chair and you've got to fight while your handcuffed, or something like that, it just adds a cool element.
I feel like a zombie movie is kind of like the gold to hear movie.
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.
I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.
I'm not as clever as J.J. Abrams and those guys who fill it with all of these things for people to find.
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.
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.
I have this horrible habit of just pressing online bookmarks that are at the top of my browser like ad infinitum.
Sure, I came up under Mike White, and Miguel Arteta; I was Mike White's assistant on 'Dawson's Creek.'
With '30 Minutes or Less,' there was a conscious decision on my part to make it a little less stylized. I wanted it to feel like an '80s action movie.
I love music videos, and I think maybe it's my favorite format.
It was fun playing with those jumps and the flashbacks in 'Zombieland,' but I don't think you need it to make a good movie. It's fun to just do a more straightforward one.
That 'Zombieland' thing was pretty great. I think I didn't realize just how lucky I was after that first movie, to have something so special and to have a cast that's so special.
I think the filmmakers that I love are ones that cross genres and do different thinks, the way that David O. Russell can do something like 'Flirting With Disaster' but then go do 'Three Kings' which is like an incredibly visual film - that's a huge reference point.
I've definitely pitched some viral ideas and do have a pretty good understanding of the Web.
