I'm not sure that I could give notes to someone that I revere. That's a general challenge of directing, giving notes to someone you revere. The other big contribution to this, which most people I show footage to take note… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
If you go to any fight, whether MMA or boxing, there's a whole musical soundscape to these events. There's pre-event pump up/psych-up music, there's… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
Because I've never made this kind of movie before, so I've never even been to Comic-Con. And Hugh and Evangeline keep telling me, 'Oh,… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what seems to… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
I think that, on the one hand, our audience, our culture is so savvy now to an assumption that teaser effects are not fully… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because we had… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
And this movie [Real Steel] definitely looks like nothing else I've made, which was the point. I think also, Evangeline and Hugh are such… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
I would say, while I think audiences are savvy enough, I think that the effects work in the teaser is quite a bit more… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships. — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
To be very honest with you, there were two big factors: One was that we were initially coming out in that week before Thanksgiving… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
I'm not sure that I could give notes to someone that I revere. That's a general challenge of directing, giving notes to someone you… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in the room.… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
I've learned that, I wouldn't say I've made that mistake, but I've learned on some of my other movies, like, you always want to… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
As opposed to a movie [Real Steel] where everything feels fantastical, it was really important to me, and I recognise it's not the first… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
Because to me, what is interesting about this movie [Real Steel] is its combination of relationship naturalism with. It's like a single conceit movie.… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
There's a very interesting article or symposium to be written on just the real difference between comedy filmmaking and non-comedy. Because, you know, when… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share
