A biography for David Sladehasn’t been written yet.
“Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work.”
“When I got the script for 'Eclipse,' I thought it was a damn good story.”
“As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.”
“I'm a big fan of horror movies. But I prefer visceral to viscous, let's just say that.”
“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.”
“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!”
“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.”
“I look for challenges. I really do.”
“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.”
“When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies.”
“Appreciate good coffee when it's available, but drink whatever they have on set and always say thank you for it.”
“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.”
“I think if you have too much fear, you're never going to break ground or develop.”
“It's good to know where you've come from.”
“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.”
“I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.”
“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.”
“What attracted me to 'Eclipse' was that it is a great story and a tremendous challenge for me as a filmmaker.”
“As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.”
“Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.”