- Nickname
- Sherv
- Shervin Youssefian is known for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), The Expendables 3 (2014) and Redemption (2013).
- He often uses parallels between the past and the present
- Likes to insert close-ups of a woman's face, frequently from an unconventional angle.
- Often uses paintings or images as a device for plot development
- He attended the USC film school for a whole semester without being enrolled in the classes.
- He lived in Dijon, France for seven years.
- He speaks French fluently.
- In high school, he was not allowed to enter film competitions because of his non-resident status. For this reason, he had to have his friends take credit for him, to receive the monetary awards.
- Recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press award for "Color Blind" in 2002.
- Directing a film is a love story. I fall in love with the characters, the way they speak, the things they say... Then it all ends and all you're left with are the memories. And that's what you share with audiences, those memories.
- Imagine sitting in your seat, and suddenly the whole world around you spins out of control while you still remain in your seat. That has happened to me on two occasions. At attraction parks and at the movies.
- A film isn't made by just one person. It's such a collaborative effort where you get these different types of storytellers... one who tells stories through music, another with lights and shadows, another with performance... and they come together to tell the same story.
- To go places, you have to go places.
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