Highly inventive U.S. film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film,
The Evil Dead. From his childhood, Raimi was a fan of the cinema and, before he was ten-years-old, he was out making movies with an 8mm camera...See full bio »
And I do think there's a new crop of American filmmakers coming. And they're in high school right now. They're in Mrs. Dawson's English class! They've got new tools, they've got computers and the video cameras, which are the equivalent of our super-8mm training ground. It's even better because they can shoot for free...
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Trivia:
Was asked to direct
I Am Legend but chose not to because he was not interested.
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Trademark:
Frequently figures out difficult shots by "reverse motion acting" (filming the actor acting backwards and playing in reverse).
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