Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work – any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves. – Sean Durkin
I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident. – Sean Durkin
A big fear of working with an actor that’s never been a lead in a film before is that you’re going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her. – Sean Durkin
I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We’re all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn’t understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully. – Sean Durkin
Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with. – Sean Durkin
When someone stays with you and they’re not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens. – Sean Durkin
Yeah, in my scripts, I don’t tend to describe landscape too clearly because I like to keep it really basic and sort of let people paint their own picture. I don’t find it helpful to spend a page describing a setting, except for maybe a few key things. – Sean Durkin
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it’s like a coach-player relationship. – Sean Durkin
I wasn’t good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life. – Sean Durkin
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer. – Sean Durkin
I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest. – Sean Durkin
