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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" What attracted me to 'Eclipse' was that it is a great story and a tremendous challenge for me as a filmmaker. "

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

" I look for challenges. I really do. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "