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

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" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I really appreciate gory movies. "

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

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

" 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 look for challenges. I really do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "