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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" My agent and manager would sternly tell me exactly the number of projects that we've turned down at this point. But, I think it's really important to do the right thing next. "

" Married life suits me. "

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

" 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. "

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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. "

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

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

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" I look for challenges. I really do. "

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

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" 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. "