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

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" Computer-generated monsters - people shoot them all day with videogames, you know, so kids aren't going to be afraid of that. People are getting immune to scares. "

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

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

" Married life suits me. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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