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" Appreciate good coffee when it's available, but drink whatever they have on set and always say thank you for it. "

" As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne. "

" As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. "

" Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do. "

" Certainly there is a lot of collaboration, but there is also a lot of clarity that has to be had in the vision that you have for the film when you come in as the director. Without that, there's no bullseye to be aiming for. "

" Computer-generated monsters - people shoot them all day with videogames, you know, so kids aren't going to be afraid of that. People are getting immune to scares. "

" Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening. "

" Film is always a fight because you're the person, as the director, with a clear picture in your head of what you think is really exciting, and you're just trying to convince a bunch of other people to buy into that. "

" Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life. "

" Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do. "

" Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work. "

" Here I was, having done a thriller and a horror movie - why did I have the audacity to make a romantic fantasy? How can I continue to make genre films? Well, maybe I don't want to continue to make genre films. "

" I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living. "

" I believe the most interesting thing to look at in the world is the human face, so that is why I tend to be a little closer to human faces than maybe other directors will be. "

" I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing over here; there just seems to be more of a culture of developing films than actually making them. "

" I don't do commentaries; I can't listen to them, either. "

" I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged. "

" I don't see myself as particularly highbrow. I am much more populist. "

" I feel like I'm in a weird state, and I wake up in Hollywood, and I've got a couple of studio movies underneath my belt, and I take these meetings with people. Sometimes it's this great, weird sense of oddness that comes at you, because I've never really stopped thinking the way that I started thinking. "

" I look for challenges. I really do. "

" I'm a big fan of horror movies. But I prefer visceral to viscous, let's just say that. "

" I really appreciate gory movies. "

" I think, as a filmmaker, you're always responsible for your film. "

" I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow. "

" I think if you have too much fear, you're never going to break ground or develop. "

" I think it's a mistake to try and overthink how you are going to be received, because that assumes that you are going to be received in the first place. "

" I think it's really difficult to justify converting a film that wasn't shot in 3-D into 3-D. I really do believe, as does James Cameron and all the people who are actually pro-3-D, that you have to go out and shoot it that way. You have nothing but compromise if you don't. "

" I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans. "

" I thought, 'Who is the first vampire ever? It's Peter Murphy!' "

" It's funny: I rarely reference anything, and I'm one of those people that doesn't really spend much time in other people's worlds. I just try and create my own and make it as distinctive as I can. "

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