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David Hayter Biography

David Hayter (born February 6, 1969) is a Canadian-American voice and screen actor and screenwriter. He is well known as the English voice actor for Solid Snake and Naked Snake throughout many titles in the Metal Gear video game series. His works as a screenwriter include X-Men, X2 and Watchmen.

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Zombies - obviously they're doing it in a much more expansive way on The Walking Dead - basically, what you used to do is you put a bunch of goo on an actor and have them shamble towards you, and it's a very effective creature. It always has tremendous impact, just that feeling of death coming for you; that's universally accepted.

Feeling, Feelings, Impact, Towards, Universally, Walking Dead

On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.

Cobbling, Ends, Ideas, Scrambling, Shots, Together

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

Boredom, Levels, Love, Sets, Size, Tension

It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve.

Comics, Continue, Evolve, Important, Way

Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.

Expression, Freedom, Fun, Jobs, Part, Writing

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

Done, Genre, Horror, Love

I love acting. I think that's the best job in the world, but I don't really enjoy the career of it so much. You don't have as much control over your life or the material as you do, well, certainly when you're a director or a producer, so while I love acting, I prefer to make my living as a filmmaker, but my rule on acting is if somebody asks me to do a part, I'll do it.

Careers, Job, Jobs, Love, Material, Thinking

When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.

Amps, Back, Guy, Playing, Tough, Want

Now that I'm a professional writer it's a little more difficult to enjoy a movie if it's not well done and a lot of the horror movies are not great, but when something's really good, like I really loved The Conjuring. That just scared the bejesus out of me.

Done, Like, Littles, Scared

I was beating Amanda Lim to death with the tire iron, I accidently hit her in the finger. It was a fake tire iron, but it was run through with metal in the middle and when she looked up after the take, she was crying and it really hurt her and so I felt pretty terrible about that, but they got back at me when I had my big fight with Casey at the end and she just beat the bejesus out of me, being the amazing stuntwoman that she is.

Accidently, Fighting, Hurt, Lim, Run, Running

To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.

Canine, Deal, Deals, Good, Turn, Turns

If you can get an audience to identify themselves with a character, they will subconsciously feel that their own lives are in danger. People tend to pay attention in situations like that. I think fear is the easiest, and most visceral, emotion to activate in an audience.

Attention, Character, Danger, People, Think, Thinking

Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.

Attention, Emotional, Keep, Level, Stories, Triggers

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

Amazing, Artist, Book, Comic, Example, Thinking