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Sam Raimi gets candid about the psychology behind his filmmaking, explaining that his own fears are the very things he uses to terrify viewers. He details the joy of building suspense and the fun of being a 'coward bully' behind the camera.
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00:00Do you ever gross yourself out?
00:01Do you ever, like, are you guys ever, like, shooting a scene
00:03and you're like, oh, oh, gosh.
00:04Yeah.
00:05It's my aversion to those things that make me want
00:08to unleash them on others.
00:10Because I'm like the coward bully.
00:13Hey, I'm afraid.
00:14I'll scare you.
00:16But I can't take it myself.
00:20That's, I like that.
00:21That really is what's going on.
00:22Do you ever feel guilt about that?
00:24No.
00:27I feel glee in the audience.
00:30When they jump, it's really great.
00:32Now they're going to be scared.
00:33Now they're going to fall for this moment.
00:36But we didn't give it to them.
00:38Now we hit them.
00:39So it's really fun to build those suspense sequences
00:43with your pals and cinematographers and team
00:46and then see if they work and fine tune them
00:49and have a great editor like Bob Murawski
00:52who can make almost anything work.
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