To be very honest with you, there were two big factors: One was that we were initially coming out in that week before Thanksgiving where both Twiligh…

- Shawn Anthony Levy

I think that, on the one hand, our audience, our culture is so savvy now to an assumption that teaser effects are not fully representative of the fin…

- Shawn Anthony Levy

Because I've never made this kind of movie before, so I've never even been to Comic-Con. And Hugh and Evangeline keep telling me, 'Oh, my god... This…

- Shawn Anthony Levy

I've learned that, I wouldn't say I've made that mistake, but I've learned on some of my other movies, like, you always want to show everything that …

- Shawn Anthony Levy

And this movie [Real Steel] definitely looks like nothing else I've made, which was the point. I think also, Evangeline and Hugh are such a fantastic…

- Shawn Anthony Levy

I'm not sure that I could give notes to someone that I revere. That's a general challenge of directing, giving notes to someone you revere. The other…

- Shawn Anthony Levy

There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in the room. So the level of nuance a…

- Shawn Anthony Levy

I would say, while I think audiences are savvy enough, I think that the effects work in the teaser is quite a bit more than presentable. I think they…

- Shawn Anthony Levy

If you go to any fight, whether MMA or boxing, there's a whole musical soundscape to these events. There's pre-event pump up/psych-up music, there's …

- Shawn Anthony Levy