Paul W. S. Anderson Quotes

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Paul W. S. Anderson

Profession : Director

Birth : March 4, 1965

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.

Paul W. S. Anderson

I don't read reviews anymore.

Paul W. S. Anderson

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.

Paul W. S. Anderson

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

Paul W. S. Anderson

When I started working as a writer-director, that's when he became Paul Thomas Anderson and I became Paul W.S. Anderson. Neither of us can write and direct an American movie under the name Paul Anderson.

Paul W. S. Anderson

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.

Paul W. S. Anderson

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.

Paul W. S. Anderson

If you're going to ask people to pay a premium price, you have to deliver a premium product. Not enough 3D movies have delivered on that promise. People got tired of it, and that's why they started to turn their back on 3D.

Paul W. S. Anderson

Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom, it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things, and they won't give you a straight answer about anything.

Paul W. S. Anderson

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.

Paul W. S. Anderson

I'm a big 3-D convert.

Paul W. S. Anderson

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

Paul W. S. Anderson

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.

Paul W. S. Anderson

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

Paul W. S. Anderson

If you make just hardcore horror, there's a limited audience for that. Whereas if it's horror mixed with action, I think you kinda broaden your potential fanbase.

Paul W. S. Anderson

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.

Paul W. S. Anderson

I think, quite often, filmmakers kind of think so much about what the franchise will be and sometimes can neglect to put their efforts into the movie that they are actually making.

Paul W. S. Anderson

No one rocks a heavy machine gun like Michelle Rodriguez.

Paul W. S. Anderson

I always refer to the first 'Resident Evil' movie as 'the little movie that could' because, at the time, it was kind of unfashionable to do video game movies.

Paul W. S. Anderson

'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.

Paul W. S. Anderson