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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 really appreciate gory movies. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Married life suits me. "