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

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

" 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. "

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

" 'Twilight' was a cult film, and the books were huge, but after 'New Moon,' it really blew up. "

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

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

" There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted. "

" Married life suits me. "

" 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. "

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

" Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My agent and manager would sternly tell me exactly the number of projects that we've turned down at this point. But, I think it's really important to do the right thing next. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I really appreciate gory movies. "

" When you are doing music videos through the '90s, which I did, and the 2000s, you were put in the position, really, as an independent filmmaker. You were being financed by a major record company or a minor record company or whatever. "

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