4 Quotes & Sayings By Peter Jurasik

Peter Jurasik is a writer and director of independent films. He was born in Chicago in 1969. He grew up in a lower middle class family in a suburb of Chicago where his interest in filmmaking started when he was a young child. Peter attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where received a BA in Theater Arts and Film Read more

In 1997 he moved to Los Angeles where he studied Film at UCLA. In 2001, he made his first short film "Rain" which was nominated for an Academy Award.  In 2004, Jurasik wrote, directed and produced his first feature film "The Other Side of Heaven". His second feature film "The Possession of Michael King" was released by Lionsgate in 2011 and won a SXSW Breakthrough Director Award.

His most recent release was the film "Haunters" released by Universal Pictures in 2014. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the animated film "Legend of the Guardians."

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So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only. Peter Jurasik
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At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers. Peter Jurasik
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Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother. Peter Jurasik