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" 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. "

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" 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. "

David Slade

Talent

Love

Amazing

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

David Slade

I Am

Much

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

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

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

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

" Married life suits me. "

David Slade

Married

Suits

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I really appreciate gory movies. "

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

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

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

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

" Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do. "

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

" 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. "

David Slade

Important

Think

" 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. "