You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values. Zack Snyder More Quotes by Zack Snyder More Quotes From Zack Snyder I used to be a huge fan of Heavy Metal magazine growing up, and I was exposed to Cobalt there and fell in love with the character and the world. I've tried to track it down and pursue it myself to make a movie out of it. Also I felt like the thing that's cool about Cobalt is it does have a culty kind of underground quality to it that I really like. Zack Snyder growing-up track character 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 stuff fun people I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross. Zack Snyder crosses earth christian 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 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 animal men philosophy My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!' Zack Snyder heavy-metal mom looks Who Honors those we love for the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us...and at the same time sings that we'll never die? Who teaches us what's real...and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us...and who holds the key that can set us free? It's you. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight! Zack Snyder fighting real lying I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them. Zack Snyder character believe reality I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Zack Snyder brother country book Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world. Zack Snyder ability other-worlds music-is So you know when you were work on Man of Steel, in 10 years somebody is going to do the music for Man of Steel, and a different director is going to be doing Man of Steel. That’s the reality. So all you can do is to give it not only your best, but your vision on what this character is, when you become one with that character. Zack Snyder character men reality I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie. Zack Snyder animation ive-learned process 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 important character hands One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture. Zack Snyder superhero important thinking We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight. Zack Snyder angel real character I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.' Zack Snyder break knows thinking 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. Zack Snyder jobs long school 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? It's not done yet! Zack Snyder done mean people The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive. Zack Snyder dog owl bird Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission. Zack Snyder missions government secret
