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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. "

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" 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. "

" With 'Cold Skin,' I believe we can create a lasting psycho-physiological horror film. It is one of the most atmospheric, terrifying, cinematic, and original stories of the human spirit. "

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

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

" On one level, this was the biggest challenge out there - to make a film of this scope, in this amount of time, and to go into a different genre, essentially. Yes, I've done a vampire film, but 'Eclipse' is a very different kind of thing. This is a romantic story, which swings from a darker, more abject feeling to very pure romantic scenes. "

" What attracted me to 'Eclipse' was that it is a great story and a tremendous challenge for me as a filmmaker. "

" Make the film that you love. When you find a film that you love, every molecule of your being will be moving in the direction of making the best film you can possibly make. This should be your default mode of operation. "

" It's good to know where you've come from. "

" When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The vampires of '30 Days of Night' never really came into discussions early on. They did later when we were trying to figure out the pathology of the 'Twilight' vampires. '30 Days' is a completely different film. If you are a kid, please ask mum and dad before you watch that one! "

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

" When I got the script for 'Eclipse,' I thought it was a damn good story. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning. "

" I look for challenges. I really do. "

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