Oren Peli (Hebrew: אורן פלאי ; born January 21, 1970) is an Israeli American film director, producer and screenwriter, known as the director of Paranormal Activity. Read full biography of Oren Peli →
The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well... →
Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of... →
In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation... →
There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires.... →
I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the... →
One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest... →
Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers.... →
I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take... →
I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are... →
On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger... →
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.
Oren Peli (Hebrew: אורן פלאי ; born January 21, 1970) is an Israeli American film director, producer and screenwriter, known as the director of Paranormal Activity.