"One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture."

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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.

— Akira Kurosawa