I Imagine The Film ["300"]

I Aim My Movies, As Much As I Can, At Myself. I Think That Those Movies Have An Interesting Quality. They're Very Movieish. They Are Movie Movies. Like I Think Watchmen Is A Very Self-aware Movie. 300. Dawn Of The Dead Definitely. That's Really Where I've Ended Up.

Once You Land On Who You Think The Character Is And What His Conflicts Are, You Have To Let That Lead You. You Have To Throw All That Other Stuff Away And Not Be Worried About This Epic Responsibility, Or It Will Just Crush And Paralyze You.

I Mean, Like, I Can Go In A Room And Say, Look, 'watchmen' Should Be At Least 15 Minutes Longer Than 'batman.' I Mean, That's, Like, Any Geek Will Tell You That.

[writing Something Original From Scratch], The Initial Process Is Way Different. But Once It Exists And You Start To Actually Work On Making It Real, Then The Approach Is Kind Of The Same, For Me Anyways.

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."