46 Quotes by David Slade

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!

I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.

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.

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

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.

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 believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.

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

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.