British - Director | September 26, 1969 -
I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.
David Slade
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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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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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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 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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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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I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.
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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.
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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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It's good to know where you've come from.
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I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.
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