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

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" 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 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always 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 don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged. "

" Married life suits me. "

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

" 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. "