Director

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.

Married life suits me.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster.

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'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 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.

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.

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 really appreciate gory movies.

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.