Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.

— Oren Peli

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I love Paranormal Activity and The Exorcist.

The Shining is a great one too, but theres not a lot that scares me. Maybe its because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

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So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

I saw Paranormal Activity on Halloween with all my friends. It scared me, but it was so much fun.

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The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.

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 just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

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You have to be extremely careful because not only do you not know what you're going to be coming up against when dealing with the paranormal realm, but you also don't know what you're going to be dealing with as far as people claiming to have paranormal activity when it really isn't.

Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

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Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

What bother me, not "bother me," exactly;

that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.

I'm just considering myself extremely lucky.

All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.