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" 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. "

David Slade

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" I really appreciate gory movies. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "