Fred Dekker

Fred Dekker (April 9, 1959–) is an American screenwriter and film director.

Quotes

• My dream would be to live on welfare and make as much money as humanly possible for doing nothing whatsoever.
  • ‘The Monster Squad’ Was Released 25 Years Ago Today: Fred Dekker Talks About the Film’s Reception and Anniversary (August 14, 2012)

• CGI is a wonderful tool but I believe it’s mostly mis-used. Or maybe more to the point: OVER-used. I truly believe we have a little chip in our head that subconsciously tells us when something we’re seeing isn’t real… and therein lies the danger of CGI.
  • The Monster Squad. Night of the Creeps. We Interview Fred Dekker! (November 29, 2018)

• The thing that I learned from Night of the Creeps that went going into Monster Squad and anything else that I had done since then is to have a stopwatch and make sure that however long it takes to play the scene or the take, that we do a couple at different speeds and presumably faster. If you look at the Preston Sturges comedies of the forties or some of the great comic directors of those days or even Howard Hawks, where he had everybody talking over each other very quickly. I think that's a great litmus test because people will almost never blame you if your movie goes too quickly, but they will get their noses out of joint if it's too slow. So the lesson I learned on Creeps was pace. But there's times when it takes its time and that really, really works for it. Making movies is trying to catch lightning in a bottle and it's very, very tricky to do.
  • ‘Night of the Creeps’ Director Fred Dekker on Crafting a Cult Classic and What the Hell Happened to ‘The Predator’ (July 12, 2019)