Comic Quote by Shawn Anthony Levy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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