David Slade

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 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. ”

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

With 'Cold Skin,' I believe we can create a lasting psycho-physiological horror film. It is one of the most atmospheric, terrifying, cinematic, and original stories of the human spirit. ”

I believe the most interesting thing to look at in the world is the human face, so that is why I tend to be a little closer to human faces than maybe other directors will be. ”

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. ”

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 filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow. ”

Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work. ”

Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do. ”