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“High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.”
“I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.”
“I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.”
“What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.”
“I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.”
“I'm as conservative as they come.”
“Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.”
“You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.”
“אני אוהב לעשות כמה שיותר אפקטים מיוחדים במצלמה, עד כמה שאפשר.”
“אנשים רק רוצים לצפות בסרטים מבדרים, זה לא משנה באיזה ז'אנר מדובר.”
“אני לא שחקן. אני ממש גרוע מול מצלמה. זה לא יעבוד.”
“אם תיתן לקהל את מה שהוא מצפה, הוא ישתעמם. אין חוקים: אתה עושה מה שאתה רוצה תוך כיבוד הגבולות. אתה עושה דברים שהם לא ראו בעבר והופך את זה לנגיש, מצחיק וחכם.”
“I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.”
“If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.”
“My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.”
“I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.”
“And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.”
“I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.”
“You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.”
“Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.”