Quotes from David Slade

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.

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.

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

'Twilight' was a cult film, and the books were huge, but after 'New Moon,' it really blew up.

Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.

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.

Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster.

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

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 thought, 'Who is the first vampire ever? It's Peter Murphy!'

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!

Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.

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.

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

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.

As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.

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