Paul W. S. Anderson famous quotes

03-22-2025

Recently, I've been loving Monster Hunter! A film conversion is currently in planning.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Monsters #Hunters #Planning
When people see what real 3D looks like, they'll go, "Oh, that's why I spend an extra $5 a cinema ticket. That's worth it!"
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Real #People #Cinema
My approach has always been to put 100% into the movie I'm making right now. I think sometimes filmmakers put too much thought into the grand franchise they're going to build. And guess what? If the first movie doesn't work there is no franchise, so I'm always concentrated on making the best, best possible movie right now.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Thinking #What If #Sometimes
Oh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Jobs #Drinking #Advertising
The other video game adaptation I did was Mortal Kombat, and I did that because I loved playing the games in the arcade. I play all of the Resident Evil games because I'm very much immersed in that world.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Games #Play #Evil
For me, it's a multitude of things. 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. It's like a fear of claustrophobia, heights or water.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Real #Loss #Thinking
3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt like I was making my first movie, all over again.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Years #Way #Firsts
I think 3-D across the board both in a home format and cinema is, it's going to be very big.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Home #Thinking #Boards
If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Technology #Littles #New Technology
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. I think you could probably dimensionalize some of my movies and they would make very good 3-D films.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Thinking #Style #Way
One of the reasons why Resident Evil is a very successful video game franchise, much more so than a lot of others that have fallen by the wayside, is that they have constantly evolved.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Successful #Games #Evil
I really believe in 3-D. I really think it is the wave of the future for cinema.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Believe #Thinking #Cinema
Every movie is a commitment of a year or a year and a half. Commercials are much faster than that because they're much more contained. You can get in and out really fast, and you do a piece of work the you see the end result very quickly.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Commitment #Years #Pieces
When you're writing it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea. It's nice- that again, is another nice thing about being able to do commercials is, you can get out of the house and chase high speed cars around for a few days and then by the time you go back, you're kind of re-infused to write.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Jobs #Nice #Writing
The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change of pace for you." And, I'm like, "Not really." When you're doing a science fiction movie, it's almost exactly the same.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Ideas #People #Fiction
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.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Race #Years #Two
There's something very terrifying about that and very primal about it. It's my belief that what horror does for people is that it provides that primal fear that, when we were wild hunter-gatherers, we had as part of our natural lives because maybe something was trying to hunt and gather you as well. We don't have that anymore in life and that's one of the things that horror films and action films provide for us.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#People #Trying #Doe
I always run the stories by Capcom. They read the scripts and give their comments. I would never want to kill a character that they really want to use in the next game.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Running #Character #Games
We've been working on the visual effects for a year, so we're trying to raise the bar. Stuff will absolutely come out at the screen, but it will absolutely not look as bad as that tire in Final Destination.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Years #Trying #Finals
What happened with Final Destination was that the movie was in post-production for a long time and I think they changed a lot of the deaths, so a lot of those things were last-minute additions. Everything we shot is in the movie and it's all been designed. We didn't change anything. It's been a year of making those things happen, exactly as we had pictured them.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Thinking #Years #Long
When we wrapped Resident Evil, we were a 3D movie, but it was no big deal. And then, Avatar came out and the whole of Hollywood was like, "Look at these grosses! 3D is huge. Let's all be 3D!" We just got on with doing what we were doing, which was making what we think is a really quality, kick-ass 3D movie, and we'll really be the first live-action 3D movie of the year.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Thinking #Years #Evil
I've so got my plate full with Resident Evil and then The Three Musketeers, I'm just not involved with Castlevania. I'm not personally involved with the movie at all. I'm not producing that. After these two films, then I'm having a holiday.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Holiday #Two #Evil
I never really thought I went away because I've written all of the movies and I'm produced them all and certainly provided services about and beyond the average producer on two and three. I was on set most of the films and called action and cut a lot of times and did all that good stuff.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Cutting #Average #Two
I was excited about the fourth movie I guess conceptually because, what I felt we should do it, we should try to make it a conceptual jump like Terminator did to T2. It was still the Terminator franchise, but it was something kind of bigger and grander.
-- Paul W. S. Anderson

#Trying #Kind #Excited
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

#Japan #Giving #Answers

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