You Can't Have A Superman

In The Making Of Book ["300"] There's A Guy Named Victor Davis Hanson Who Is A A Frickin Genius. He's A Greek Historian And We Showed Him The Movie Because I Wanted Him To Write A Forward To The Making Of Book. I Was A Little Nervous To Be Honest, Because I Wasn't Sure How He'd React.

You Can't Teach Anyone. You Can't Tell Anyone. That's The Thing You Have To Sit Down And Experience In Order For It To Mean Anything. You Can't Intellectualize It. It's Like Why Movies Are Cool. It's A Combination Of Pictures And Design And Acting And Music Can Create An Experience That Is Outside Of The Experience That You Can Actually Have In Reality, Which Gets To My Motion Picture Philosophy. People Are Like, 'aren't You Trying To Make The Movies As Real As You Can?'

The Difference Between 'watchmen' And A Normal Comic Book Is This: With 'batman's Gotham City,' You Are Transported To Another World Where That Superhero Makes Sense; 'watchmen' Comes At It In A Different Way, It Almost Superimposes Its Heroes On Your World, Which Then Changes How You View Your World Through Its Prism.

I Imagine The Film ["300"] As If I Was A Spartan And I Had Never Seen An Immortal Or A Persian, Or An Elephant Or A Rhino For That Matter.

[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.