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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Married life suits me. "

" Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster. "

" 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. "

" I look for challenges. I really do. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" I really appreciate gory movies. "

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

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