Greg Nicotero Interview Snippet

[deezelboy]

From the Los Angeles Times, snippet below:

Contender Q&A: Gregory Nicotero
December 10, 2009 |  2:50 pm

So to answer your question, I don't know how I keep all of it on track, but I've been doing it for 25 years. And I have a great crew, with a lot of people that I've worked with for decades and help me realize all the stuff that we want to do. I've always said that the first two or three weeks on a movie are the most exciting. The slate is clean, and you sit with the director and start riffing ideas and get a feel for the creative process. The director on "Predators," Nimrod Antal, was such a fan of the original "Predator," and had this great enthusiasm for the project, and that gets you charged up. When you meet with a director and they're excited, it's like the Frankenstein monster. That energy blasts you and then you start to see things coming together. You get your sculptors and your mold makers and your painters going, and the stuff comes to life. You know, that Frankenstein analogy is a good one.... (Laughs.)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/awards/2009/12/the-contender-qa-gregory-nicotero.html

[Master Chief]

"Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming."