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People are nervous about their kids, and they're worried about the disintegration of families and the type of media culture they're living in.

Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.

Stephenie Meyer said she's ready to move on from 'Twilight,' but you never know.

Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?

Sheep are just psychotic.

Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.

As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.

I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.

How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.

I'm immature.

The boys in junior high get really lewd and say outrageous stuff to the girls. If somebody yelled the stuff at me that I've heard at junior high schools I've visited, I'd be scared and humiliated.

You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.

I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.

You don't pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, for movie tickets, you're asked to pay the same price for 'Avatar' as you are for some $2 million movie, which is kind of a weird thing when you think about it.

When I read the 'Twilight' book, I didn't see it as fantasy. I saw it as a love story.

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.