Latest Zack Snyder Quotes from Interviews

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• 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."

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Battle, Needs

• 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.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Writing, Guy

• 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.

  Zack Snyder

  Rhinos, Elephants, Matter

• I think Sin City is a good example. Nobody would accuse Sin City of being historically inaccurate because it takes place in modern times.

  Zack Snyder

  Thinking, Sin City, Cities

• My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.

  Zack Snyder

  Dad, Years, Conviction

• Also I've got to say in the movie ["300"] Gorgo, who is the Queen, she has also a part that is - I think - I don't want to say, 'Oh look, it's multi-quadrant,' and all this. I believe that it is because I think my dad can see this movie and go, 'F**k yeah!

  Zack Snyder

  Queens, Dad, Believe

• I think that when you see the trailer [on movie "300"] - my feeling is anyway and maybe I'm not objective because I live it - but I think when you see it you immediately go, 'Okay, this is another sort of way of doing this.'

  Zack Snyder

  Thinking, Feelings, Way

• Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.

  Zack Snyder

  Thinking, Sparta, Groove

• Yeah, I mean, I think I'm obsessed with tone in the movies. Tone has always been the main thing that I go after with a movie.

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  Mean, Thinking, Tone

  Source: screenrant.com

• I love comic books - maybe to a fault sometimes.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Faults, Sometimes

  Source: screenrant.com

• You know it has all the kind of fun stuff. It has the countermeasures - we always talk about the countermeasures because people are like, "What the heck is countermeasures?" You know if I shot a missile at it, flares would pop out of those holes and stop the missile from hitting it.

  Zack Snyder

  Fun, People, Stuff

  "Zack Snyder to 411: 'Batman V Superman Makes the DC Film Universe Possible'". Interview with Jeffrey Harris, 411mania.com. October 22, 2015.

• I want to - we're working toward Justice League, and I really want to create the - part of the thing I really want to create is the possibility of a world where they could exist together.

  Zack Snyder

  League, Justice, Together

  "Zack Snyder to 411: 'Batman V Superman Makes the DC Film Universe Possible'". Interview with Jeffrey Harris, 411mania.com. October 22, 2015.

• I think up to this point, it's been difficult to suggest a world where Batman and Superman and Wonder Woman and others could exist in the same universe. That was one of the things I really wanted to try and get at. Not to mention, the amazing opportunity to bring those characters and have those characters tell an important story, their own story, within the confines of a film.

  Zack Snyder

  Character, Thinking, Opportunity

  "Zack Snyder to 411: 'Batman V Superman Makes the DC Film Universe Possible'". Interview with Jeffrey Harris, 411mania.com. October 22, 2015.

• The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's great when everybody can know where everything came from. It's important for the legacy of them.

  Zack Snyder

  Character, Hands, Important

  Source: 411mania.com

• I'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the book you're just ticking off boxes. I think that after you see the movie, reading the book is a cool thing. I always say the movie's not meant to replace the book. That's ridiculous. I'm a huge fan of the book.

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  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• My personal success would be that people understand what I was trying to do. It was the most palatable when I watchmen_7_mdid Dawn. With Watchmen, too, I feel the same way. The movie's ironic and satirical and it's funny and serious and that's kind of the same way I felt about Dawn. Like I really was making a movie that knows it's a zombie movie and enjoys that and wants the audience to say, yeah, that's okay.

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  People, Zombie, Ironic

  Source: therumpus.net

• With Dawn I was afraid people would just think it's a B-movie and I didn't know what I was doing. That's really what I was afraid of. Like the subtlety of the movie they would miss. If the movie succeeds, it's that people understand the subtlety. That they're able to see past the conventions of what they think a movie is and go a teeny bit deeper and let it be both.

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  Past, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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?'

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  Philosophy, Real, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

• Reality's its own thing. And I'm not really into reality that much. I'm into this cinematic stylized reality that can comment on reality. It's like the most beautiful parts of reality and the saddest parts, but it's none of this middle ground.

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  Beautiful, Reality, Middle

  Source: therumpus.net

• There's that weird and cool line that music can cross where it still gives you the goosebumps and you think it's cool but on the other hand it's sort of like also letting you off the hook a little bit with the ironic aspects of the thing. I think that's the inexplicable, the smell of a movie. That's the taste of the movie.

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  Thinking, Hands, Smell

  Source: therumpus.net

• The truth is the music is really an incredible personal part of the movie. When I was drawing the storyboards for Watchmen, I had just gone to my iPod and was grabbing music. It took me about two weeks to really put my playlist together. But once I had it, I kinda just put my headsets on and drew for five months. But that music's the music that's in the movie.

  Zack Snyder

  Two, Drawing, Ipods

  Source: therumpus.net

• We can't just go, like, oh that'd be cool then not do it. So it's one of those weird things. You gain all these things on your journey. You get smarter. It's interesting how you are who you are in high school in a lot of ways. When I look at my friends, I feel no different about them than I did when I was in high school. I mean that in a great way. They've taken on a micro scale what they were doing and making it bigger.

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  Taken, School, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

• I always say, thank god I have this job or I don't know what I'd be doing. It'd be sad. I've always felt like I have been trying to brand a world for a quite a long time. You know what though, I feel no different. I feel like I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school. Only I have more people helping me out now. And we have to take it all the way.

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  Jobs, School, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

• You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.

  Zack Snyder

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

• There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.

  Zack Snyder

  Moving, Museums, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net