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

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

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

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Married life suits me. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 really appreciate gory movies. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "