Top 44 Paul W. S. Anderson Quotes

‘Death Race’ was a very modern action movie, and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts.

When you make people a lot of money, it gives you leverage in Hollywood.

‘Pompeii’ is definitely a passion project for me.

My grandfather, who brought me up, was a coal miner. I visited the mines with him. I remember it vividly. It was horrible. I’m glad I didn’t go into the family business.

I’ve always seen myself as a populist filmmaker.

When I made my first film, ‘Shopping,’ the reviews were incredibly snooty. They said things like, ‘Jude Law is too pretty for the role,’ and that’s why I don’t respect the British press. That kind of small-minded thing doesn’t consider what people like.

I’m a big gamer.

One of the strengths of the ‘Resident Evil’ game franchise is that they keep changing it up.

Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don’t do that. You’re spending a lot of somebody else’s money.

I had played ‘Mortal Kombat’ back I arcades in London, and I loved it. I came to the movies as a genuine fan of the intellectual property, and I think that counts for a lot.

I think ‘Lost’ didn’t invent the flashback, obviously. It’s been a cinematic tool. It’s been around almost as long as cinema has.

I love 3D, and I’m very upset about the way it’s being treated and thrown away by Hollywood in this kind of horrible grab for the money with all these bad 3D movies and terrible 3D conversions.

People see my films, and they cheer and they clap, and they are the kind of movies I like to see myself.

We are definitely modernizing ‘The Three Musketeers’ without compromising the fun of shooting a period piece. But in our film, corsets and feathered hats don’t take center stage. Our version is rich in eye-popping action, romance, and adventure.

In the modern world, there’s a real genuine fear of loss of individuality, and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear.

You are only as good as the movie you make. I really believe that.

When I first came to Hollywood to make ‘Mortal Kombat’ back in the day, there was this rule that female-led action movies don’t work and American studios didn’t want to make them.

A modern audience is capable of processing just so much information because they’re used to visual media that’s on overload.

Honestly, I don’t think anyone confuses me with Wes Anderson. He’s in his own terrific universe, but not the kind anyone would mistake for mine.

Having made a real 3D movie, you realize that, right from the production design, you’re designing sets that complement the 3D. You’re designing interactive elements, like rain or smoke – all this particulate matter in the air enhances the 3D. But if you’re shooting in 2D, you don’t know about that.

I’m a huge, huge fan of Blu-ray. I think the picture and the sound quality is just such a massive improvement, and I think for movies like ‘Event Horizon,’ where the image is a key part of that film, and also the sound, as well, in any scary movie is an important element.

I very much see ‘Resident Evil’ as my franchise that I kicked, screaming, into life.

I grew up in England, and at the time, cinema was very heavy arthouse cinema, and there was no one making movies that were designed to be in multiplexes.

‘Pompeii’ will be PG-13. I think it has to have a level of violence and death in it because you’ve got a volcano exploding. But it will be another PG-13 movie.

DVD ushered in this era when you had to have additional footage, deleted scenes, things like that. There was no call for that back when we were just doing VHS cassettes and LaserDiscs.

It’s very rare, in a movie franchise, where you have the same creative team behind the camera and in front of the camera, pretty much, for the entire growth of the franchise.

I don’t make films for critics, and I’m not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don’t have a bearing on my audiences.

I’m staying in my wheelhouse, not making any romantic comedies in a hurry.

Franchises need to evolve or die.

Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.

I started doing commercials in 2008 right after we released ‘Death Race,’ and the reason was that I spent two years prepping Death Race and building all these custom rigs to shoot cars in the most dynamic and exciting way.

One of my favorite countries in the world is Japan, and I’ve spent a huge amount of time there.

I’ve always tried to do camera moves that I felt were immersive. So I think, as a filmmaker, my style of filmmaking is very well-suited to 3-D anyway, so it’s not like I’m having to change a huge amount of the way I shoot to work in 3-D.

A pleased audience member is a pleased audience member, whether they’re in New York or Mumbai.

I’m a big 3-D convert.

I can’t remember who said, ‘No film is completed, just abandoned,’ but I think most filmmakers will tell you that they could endlessly fiddle with their films for the next couple of decades, you know, changing things, altering things.

I saw ‘Spacehunter 3-D.’ It gave me a headache.

What I love about ‘Monster Hunter’ is the incredibly beautiful, immersive world they’ve created. It’s on the level of, like, a ‘Star Wars’ movie in terms of world creation.

‘Aliens’ was a brilliant movie, but you still wanted to see the Alien come to Earth.

The idea of being able to polish something for nine months – it’s the perfect way to hone your film.

I think one of the joys of disaster movies is not knowing who’s going to live and who’s going to die.

I think ‘Death Race 2000’ is a classic, but it’s a classic from the 1970s, and I think it’s a particular kind of drive-in-exploitation movie satire masterpiece, and it was very much a movie of its time.

‘Pompeii’ is kind of a lifelong obsession for me.

Sleep is a outmoded concept. It’s best not to think about sleep.