Zack Snyder famous quotes

Everyone has an angel, a guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take. One day old man, next day little girl. But don't let appearances fool you, they can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet they are not here to fight are battles, but to whisper from a hearth. Reminding that it's us... it's everyone of us who holds the power of the worlds we create.
-- Zack Snyder

#Girl #Angel #Fighting

I guess for me - in the TV commercial world I was known for shooting locations, beautiful landscapes and things like that - so, it's interesting.
-- Zack Snyder

#Beautiful #Interesting #World

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.
-- Zack Snyder

#Needs #Morality #Values

People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.
-- Zack Snyder

#People #Important #Stories

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.
-- Zack Snyder

#Crush #Character #Responsibility

Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.
-- Zack Snyder

#Moving #Firsts #Stories

I do like Superman as a character, and I have followed him throughout the years.
-- Zack Snyder

#Character #Years

I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the way he fits into society.
-- Zack Snyder

#Past #People #Littles

The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
-- Zack Snyder

#Book #Ideas #People

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.
-- Zack Snyder

#Book #Hero #Views

The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.
-- Zack Snyder

#Eye #Cutting #Focus

The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
-- Zack Snyder

#Drawing #Mind #Problem

The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
-- Zack Snyder

#Dark #Fighting #Knights

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.
-- Zack Snyder

#Thinking #Superhero #Important

Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
-- Zack Snyder

#Government #Secret #Missions

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
-- Zack Snyder

#Made #Dork

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
-- Zack Snyder

#Running #Marathon #Action

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.
-- Zack Snyder

#Art #Real #Drawing

He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
-- Zack Snyder

#Book #Adventure #Superhero

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.
-- Zack Snyder

#Feelings #Looks #Want

People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
-- Zack Snyder

#Nice #People #Superhero

Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
-- Zack Snyder

#Thinking #Projects #Aesthetic

It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
-- Zack Snyder

#Hands #Hollywood #Difficult

I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
-- Zack Snyder

#Process #Animation

The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.
-- Zack Snyder

#Dog #Bird #Owl

Who Honors those we love for the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us...and at the same time sings that we'll never die? Who teaches us what's real...and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us...and who holds the key that can set us free? It's you. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight!
-- Zack Snyder

#Real #Lying #Fighting

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.
-- Zack Snyder

#Reality #Mind #Prison

We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.
-- Zack Snyder

#Real #Character #Angel

I’m so excited to begin working again with Henry Cavill in the world we created, and I can’t wait to expand the DC Universe in this next chapter. Let’s face it, it’s beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off, since they are the greatest Super Heroes in the world.
-- Zack Snyder

#Hero #Waiting #World

So you know when you were work on Man of Steel, in 10 years somebody is going to do the music for Man of Steel, and a different director is going to be doing Man of Steel. That’s the reality. So all you can do is to give it not only your best, but your vision on what this character is, when you become one with that character.
-- Zack Snyder

#Character #Reality #Men

My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'
-- Zack Snyder

#Mom #Looks #Heavy Metal

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
-- Zack Snyder

#Writing #Pages #Way

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
-- Zack Snyder

#Thinking #Helping #Natural

I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!
-- Zack Snyder

#Mean #People #Done

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
-- Zack Snyder

#Reality #Irony #Reason

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
-- Zack Snyder

#Other Worlds #Music Is #Ability

I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
-- Zack Snyder

#Christian #Earth #Crosses

I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.
-- Zack Snyder

#Believe #Character #Reality

Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
-- Zack Snyder

#Guy #Important #Stuff

It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.
-- Zack Snyder

#Real #Interesting #House

I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.
-- Zack Snyder

#Unique #Superhero #Guy

I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
-- Zack Snyder

#Country #Brother #Book

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.
-- Zack Snyder

#Mean #Rooms #Looks

I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.
-- Zack Snyder

#Thinking #Break