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Nick Simon

Nick Simon

Movie director

Sep 24, 2026

38:17
I'm going to say Hellboy 1.
38:21
And? Just movies, no TV shows.
38:24
Just movies.
38:26
Hellboy 1 and...
38:27
He did a...
38:31
I don't think that would be top four, though.
38:34
He did a Nosferatu that came out right a year before the other one.

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66:14
But
2:31
Can you tell me about your time at the AFI and working with Wes Craven?
2:35
Oh, yeah.
2:35
Uh, I, I was accepted into the American Film Institute as a director in 2006 at the Conservatory, and graduated in '08, '09, something like that.
2:44
And then, and then, uh, I made my first film.
2:48
Like, I, I was, uh...
2:49
I, I wrote with Oz Perkins, Osgood Perkins, and we-- I put him in the movie, and we were friends from, like, when I was at AFI.
2:55
And, uh, then we wrote another script.

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14:16
This was so nice.
17:01
excuse me there's no weak
17:04
link ever.
17:05
I mean, it's like, uh, you, you, you can, I can't, we cast Heather and Mimi who are incredible.
17:10
And, uh, and, and, and Island Austin, who is this like prodigy child who was, who after our movie, we shot our movie and then she immediately went on to do insidious, uh, right after that, the new insidious movie.
17:22
Uh, and it's like, I'm like, I remember sitting there going like, this kid is incredible.
17:26
Like she's going to blow up.
17:26
And then now, now she's in like God of war that you're going to be in all these other things.
19:23
I know we're coming wrapping up on time, but the last question I would like to ask you quick is if there was one moment while you're doing the pre-production or the production or post-production that you will always remember moving on, what would it be?

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