When Reality Is A Prison, Your Mind

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.

The Eyes Get Lost In 3-d. With 3-d, Your Eyes Are Looking For The Plane Of Focus, Right? And The Problem Is, When You Do Quick Cuts, Your Eyes Can't Find It.

People Always Come Up To Me Now And Say, 'watchmen' Is The Best Superhero Movie Ever Made.' I'm Always Saying 'that's Super Cool. That's Nice Of You To Say.' But It Happens Now, More And More And More Than It Did When It First Came Out.

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.

Look, If You Have A Problem With Distilling The Battle Of Thermopylae Down To Freedom Versus Tyranny, You Need To Read Herodotus Because He's The One. It's His Fault, Not Modern Culture's Fault. He Did It.' [victor Davis Hanson] References A Lot Of Things Like That Because He Feels Like The Spirit Of The Book And Of The Movie ["300"] Are Very Close To The Spartan Aesthetic. That's Really Kind Of What He Feels."