We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them.… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human. — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
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,… — Zack Snyder Copy Share
I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
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… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
I used to be a huge fan of Heavy Metal magazine growing up, and I was exposed to Cobalt there and fell in love… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
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… — Zack Snyder Copy Share
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real. — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
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?… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
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… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
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