I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mist…

- Matt Reeves

One of the things I thought coming into the franchise, what I thought was a unique gift: you hear so much of these reboots, remakes, re-whatevers, an…

- Matt Reeves

My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.

- Matt Reeves

It's that we're experiencing emotion through photo-real apes, and that's really holding a mirror up to who we are. It's interesting, because as we're…

- Matt Reeves

Of course you're nervous, but we're really excited to be able to share what we're going to share. And it's cool, because what we're going to be doing…

- Matt Reeves

When you think of the "Exorcist" (1973) you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that …

- Matt Reeves

There's something about seeing a movie that you like, and being able to see the scenes that didn't make it, just as a window into the process of how …

- Matt Reeves

That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew …

- Matt Reeves

I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all a…

- Matt Reeves