Quotes by David Slade - Page 1

Married life suits me.
David Slade / Film Director
Married
Married Life
Suits
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It's good to know where you've come from.
David Slade / Film Director
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Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.
David Slade / Film Director
Filmmaking
Suspense
Tough
Terms
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Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster.
David Slade / Film Director
Unstoppable
Monster
Personally
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I thought, 'Who is the first vampire ever? It's Peter Murphy!'
David Slade / Film Director
Murphy
Peter
Vampire
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I don't see myself as particularly highbrow. I am much more populist.
David Slade / Film Director
Populist
Myself I Am See
Highbrow
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When I got the script for 'Eclipse,' I thought it was a damn good story.
David Slade / Film Director
Damn
Eclipse
Good Story
Script
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I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.
David Slade / Film Director
Brilliant
Filmmaking
Believe I Believe Living
Believe Doing I Believe
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I think if you have too much fear, you're never going to break ground or develop.
David Slade / Film Director
Break
Too Much
Develop
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I'm a big fan of horror movies. But I prefer visceral to viscous, let's just say that.
David Slade / Film Director
Movies
Horror
Visceral
Big Big Fan Fan
Movies Big Big Fan
Prefer
Movies Big Fan
Big Fan
Fan
Movies Big Fan Fan
Horror Movies
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I've always been very, very supportive of fan cultures. I'm a fan of all kinds of things.
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Culture
Fans
Supportive
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As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.
David Slade / Film Director
Fantastic
Life Work People
Director
Elizabeth
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I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.
David Slade / Film Director
Challenged
Same Thing
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'Twilight' was a cult film, and the books were huge, but after 'New Moon,' it really blew up.
David Slade / Film Director
Cult
Moon
Twilight
Blew
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I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.
David Slade / Film Director
Ability
Communicate
Humans
Love Important Think
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Eclipse
Tremendous
Great Story
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Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.
David Slade / Film Director
Focus
Publishing
Work Always Will
Designing
Main
Main Focus
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Thank You
Appreciate
Available
Coffee
Thank
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Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.
David Slade / Film Director
Film
Listening
Needs
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Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.
David Slade / Film Director
Awhile
Begins
Organism
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Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work.
David Slade / Film Director
Astonishing
Filmmaker
Gifted
Great Respect
Visual
Work Respect Great
Francis
Incredibly
Lawrence
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Communicate
Specificity
Vision
Director
Clearly
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.
David Slade / Film Director
Comic
Horrific
Pushing
Video
Video Games
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Ad
Agencies
Commercials
Music Video
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Filmmaking
Luck
Preparation
Largely
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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.
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Mistake
Assumes
First Place
Received
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Immune
Monsters
Afraid
All Day
Day People Know
Computer-Generated
Scares
Videogames
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Planning
Work Your Will
Explain
Work Will Your
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Faces
Closer
Face Look World
Human Face
Interesting Thing
Tend
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Right Thing
Me Do The Right Thing The Right Thing
Agent
Do The Right Thing
Manager
The Right Thing
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With a DVD, you want something you can own, you can watch, you can come to grips with and you can explore. It's something larger than the film, when it's going out to a fan base.
David Slade / Film Director
Dvds
Fans
Want Something
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There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.
David Slade / Film Director
Burying
Dying
Environment
Late
Sand
Too Late
Beginning
Finally
Heads
Recognize
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As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.
David Slade / Film Director
Difficult
Directors
Want
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Cinematic
Cold
Horror Film
Human Spirit
Lasting
Skin
Atmospheric
Original
Terrifying
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Distinctive
Funny Time People
Rarely
Reference
Worlds
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Movie
Audacity
Fantasy
Genre
Films
Horror Movie
Maybe
Thriller
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Bunch
Clear
Convince
Picture
Always Fight Your
Buy
Fight People Always
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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 / Film Director
Astonishing
Developing
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Default
Love Best Your
Mode
Operation
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Clarity
Collaboration
Aiming
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Filmmaker
Independent
Position
Major
Record
Minor
Music Videos
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As the director, you're meant to be critical and you are, so there are loads of things. But the thing is, the way I look at it is, to try to get some measure of success, it's dangerous to look at financial or critical success, or positive response as a measure.
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Directors
Trying
Way
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Cameron
Compromise
Converting
Difficult
Film
Justify
Actually
Shot
Shoot
James
Believe Difficult People
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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!
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Mum
Pathology
Please
Twilight
Discussions
Figure
Vampires
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There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."
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Dream
Anxiety
Waking
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Hollywood
Meetings
Wake Up
Weird
Belt
Studio
Studio Movies
Underneath
Wake
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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.
David Slade / Film Director
Eclipse
Genre
Pure
Scope
Swings
Vampire
Abject
Biggest Challenge
Challenge
Darker
Scenes
Different Kind
Essentially
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I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I discovered, on my first film, that you go through this really intense experience of making a film and then you sit in a little room with a monitor and you reduce the thing to a bunch of silly anecdotes. It's really unfulfilling and I've never really enjoyed listening to them anyway, so I just don't do them.
David Slade / Film Director
Listening
Rooms
Silly
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Mads has a terrifying subtlety and as the episodes go on, you start seeing the way a person can command other people by doing practically nothing and terrifying the sh*t out of you. He is the most astonishingly subtle performer with the most incredibly keen sense of what his face can do and how his words can form. He has a mission. Nothing is by chance. I truly believe as long as we have success in seasons that Mads will become the defining face of Hannibal Lecter.
David Slade / Film Director
Believe
Long
People
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