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" He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes. "
Work
Book
Amazing
" I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book. "
Country
Amazing
Book
" I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them. "
Character
Ride
Reality
" I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross. "
Time
Christian
Earth
" I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture. "
Movies
Love
Picture
" I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!' "
Me
God
Weird
" I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that. "
Look
Mean
You
" I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie. "
Much
Process
Like
" I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it. "
Aesthetic
Natural
Just
" I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.' "
Doing
Know
Me
" It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything. "
Hollywood
Hand
Feel
" It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same. "
Relationship
You
House
" It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it. "
Feeling
You
Christmas
" I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.' "
Unique
Deep
Know
" I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing. "
Page
Start
Way
" Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world. "
Ability
World
Us
" My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!' "
She
Mom
Me
" Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic. "
Depend
Think
Myself
" One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture. "
Think
Superhero
Culture
" Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it. "
Like
Important
Kind
" Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission. "
Say
Working
Plans
" People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out. "
Best
People
Saying
" The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more. "
Challenge
Book
Ideas
" The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism. "
Changes
You
World
" The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it. "
Looking
You
Problem
" The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time. "
Illusion
Drawing
You
" There's very few dork movies made by dorks. "
Movies
Made
Few
" The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat. "
Dark
You
Face
" The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive. "
Dog
Alien
Bird
" To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack. "
Money
Enough
Dead
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