David Slade Quotes
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When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies.
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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.
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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.
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It's good to know where you've come from.
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Appreciate good coffee when it's available, but drink whatever they have on set and always say thank you for it.
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I don't do commentaries; I can't listen to them, either.
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I look for challenges. I really do.
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I don't see myself as particularly highbrow. I am much more populist.
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Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work.
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As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.
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Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.
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As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.
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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.
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What attracted me to 'Eclipse' was that it is a great story and a tremendous challenge for me as a filmmaker.
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I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.
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Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.