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

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" I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing over here; there just seems to be more of a culture of developing films than actually making them. "

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

" I look for challenges. I really do. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 really appreciate gory movies. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Married life suits me. "