I Imagine The Film ["300"] As If

You Can't Teach Anyone. You Can't Tell Anyone. That's The Thing You Have To Sit Down And Experience In Order For It To Mean Anything. You Can't Intellectualize It. It's Like Why Movies Are Cool. It's A Combination Of Pictures And Design And Acting And Music Can Create An Experience That Is Outside Of The Experience That You Can Actually Have In Reality, Which Gets To My Motion Picture Philosophy. People Are Like, 'aren't You Trying To Make The Movies As Real As You Can?'

My Mom Always Encouraged Me, It Was Never Weird. She'd Look At 'heavy Metal' And Go 'woo-hoo!'

I Always Say, I'm Certain I Changed 'watchmen' Less Than The Coen Brothers Changed 'no Country For Old Men.' I'm Certain Of It. But You Don't Hear The Cormac Mccarthy Fans, Like, Up In Arms About It. They Should Be. It's Like An Amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning Book.

You Can't Will Something Into Being. If You Follow That Philosophy All The Way, To Will Something Into Being, That's Animal Style. That's What Man Does. But If You're Looking At The Philosophy Correctly, And I Never Did - I Like To Think I Did Sometimes - You Have To Do It Without Ego, Without The I. You Have To Separate Yourself.

The Difference Between 'watchmen' And A Normal Comic Book Is This: With 'batman's Gotham City,' You Are Transported To Another World Where That Superhero Makes Sense; 'watchmen' Comes At It In A Different Way, It Almost Superimposes Its Heroes On Your World, Which Then Changes How You View Your World Through Its Prism.