”I think delusion is your friend as an artist.”“George Romero was the person that got me into this,” said Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance of the horror director who inspired him.As a child he would watch, and wear out, a VHS of Romero’s 1982 classic Creepshow “every day when I came home from school”.Cianfrance was taking with fellow filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson as part of TIFF’s Industry conference Dialogues on Saturday.
TIFF has helped to launch the international careers of both directors, with Cianfrance’s breakthrough Blue Valentine and Abrahamson’s Oscar-winning Room screening at the festival in 2010 and 2015 respectively.
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