David Twohy Quotes

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there.

I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.

When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

I went to Long Beach State, started out as an actor.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.