You Know, It's A Hugely Difficult Thing

The Cool Thing About Watchmen Is It Has This Really Complicated Question That It Asks, Which Is: Who Polices The Police Or Who Governs The Government? Who Does God Pray To? Those Are Pretty Deep Questions But Also Pretty Fun Questions. Kind Of Exciting. It Tries To Subvert The Superhero Genre By Giving You These Big Questions, Moral Questions. Why Do You Think You're On A Fun Ride? Suddenly You're Like How Am I Supposed To Feel About That?

You Can't Have A Superman That Is Battling Cultural Morality. You Need A Superman That Has Built In Sort Of Values.

Probably The Hardest Thing To Do Was The Beginning Of The Movie ["300"], I Think, When We Were In Sparta And All That - Just Getting In The Groove.

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."

The Problem Is, When You're Making An Animated Movie, The Studio Has An Illusion In Their Minds - And It's Really Not True - That Because It's A Drawing, It Can Be Changed At Any Time.