David Twohy
David Twohy
David Neil Twohyis an American film director and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth18 October 1955
CountryUnited States of America
want film enough
I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.
fans
I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there.
cutting two firsts
Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lose 20 minutes. It's incredible that it just keeps happening.
diversity want opinion
Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.
diesel guess learned people smarter
I've learned never to count Vin Diesel out. Just don't do that. And I guess it's because he is a very smart guy. Smarter than people give him credit for.
filmmakers happening keeps
I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.
ultimately
There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.
scripts visual-effects visuals
After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.
running fiction kind
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
trying fiction familiar
In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.
come-up bad-things
To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?
nice character actors
Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.
taken care stuff
When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!
wall hands people
You hear people say that there's too much CG in movies today, but CG is what allows me to take a green-painted wall in a studio and make it disappear, and then put 100 miles of landscape in. CG, in the right hands, can be a marvelous tool.