Latest Uwe Boll Quotes from Interviews

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• A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games you have adventure, sci-fi, horror, action and even comedy. I think that people should accept more that video games are kind of like the best-selling books of the new generation.

  Uwe Boll

  Book, Adventure, Thinking

  "Inside The Mind Of Uwe Boll: "Halo" Not Emotional, "GTA" Old-fashioned". MTV interview, www.mtv.com. October 12, 2007.

• I had $60,000 for my first movie. I was 33 before I made any money off of movies. I worked my ass off for free. To get that I'm "enemy number one" among young kids is a little absurd.

  Uwe Boll

  Kids, Enemy, Ass

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Any asshole can make a good movie for $100 million. I think it's way harder to make a movie with no money, and to start with no contacts and work your way up to international productions.

  Uwe Boll

  Thinking, Good Movie, No Money

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I like the direct contact. I want a lot of people that only know me through the mass media to learn more about what I'm doing, and to know that I'm an independent filmmaker and I'm not part of the Hollywood system. I'm coming from where they started. I'm not coming from a family with a lot of money.

  Uwe Boll

  Independent, People, Filmmaker

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I get most of my reviews through e-mail, and then I go and read it and go on message boards to check it out. I want to see what's out there and to better estimate my position. I'm definitely happy that a lot of people are voting positively for Postal - especially the hundreds and hundreds who actually saw it. Still, there are a lot of people who didn't see it who are giving me only one point out of 10 because they hate me, and it has nothing to do with the movie.

  Uwe Boll

  Hate, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I want to be like, "Look at Postal like Quentin Tarantino did it. Brainwash yourself and convince yourself that Tarantino did it. Forget my name and enjoy the 100 minutes and then write your review."

  Uwe Boll

  Writing, Forget, Tarantino

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think without the harsh critics, I would maybe have not made progress. From BloodRayne on, I spent more time and money on the development.

  Uwe Boll

  Thinking, Progress, Harsh

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think the harsh reviews helped, in that I spent way more energy in the preproduction and development. From this point of view, I'm very thankful for the harsh critics. I still think the critics were unnecessarily insulting in a lot of things, but I think it helped.

  Uwe Boll

  Thinking, Insulting, Energy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• As a filmmaker, I get compared to people who have no clue how to do anything, but because of some Internet writing, it looks like they would actually be better filmmakers. I think this is absurd.

  Uwe Boll

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There are a lot of idiots on the Internet getting a lot of attention.

  Uwe Boll

  Attention, Idiot, Internet

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Of course there are a lot of books that are interesting to make movies out of, but on the other hand, I think video games are also kind of like bestselling books for the younger generation, and the younger generation is the one going to the theaters.

  Uwe Boll

  Book, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think a lot of people don't take you seriously if they hear it's a video-game-based movie, and a lot of press people don't write about you. With BloodRayne, a lot of serious newspaper people didn't actually even see the movie. They went online to see other reviews, and then wrote their own. I think comic-book-based movies have a better image. We see it with 300, Sin City, Spider-Man - they are A-list features, and video-game movies are B-list.

  Uwe Boll

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Everybody says video-game adaptations are all the same, but I disagree. Normally, video-game adaptations are like Alone In The Dark, Resident Evil, Alien Vs. Predator - sci-fi creature stuff. But I think I've covered] a wide range of genres and time periods, like Transylvania in 1700 and now a Western with BlodRayne II, or adventure with Dungeon Siege, or comedy and satire with Postal.

  Uwe Boll

  Adventure, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• You don't need any courage today in Germany to make a movie about the Nazi time. You get all the subsidies, you get the TV stations, you get the good reviews. But you need courage to kick in the balls all the people that are still hiding under the blanket, and to say, "Oh, Adolf Hitler was maybe not so bad." And with my little Nazi jokes in Postal, I offended the Germans in a harsh time.

  Uwe Boll

  People, Today, Hiding

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I always try to get games of different genres. This is the reason Postal is a comedy, and Far Cry is a real, pure action movie - like Die Hard on an island - and In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale was my opportunity to do my epic, Braveheart, Lord Of The Rings, Gladiator movie. I try not to repeat myself in genres too much.

  Uwe Boll

  Real, Epic, Opportunity

  Source: www.avclub.com

• In Germany, people are saying, "George W. Bush is an asshole. Osama Bin Laden is an asshole." But then I make jokes about Auschwitz, and how the Germans are lederhosen-wearing sausage freaks - and they hate me for this! And I'm like, "You all are sitting there because you want to relax and have a nice evening, and now you're pissed because I put also a mirror in front of you."

  Uwe Boll

  Hate, Nice, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Even if people hate my other movies, and hate me, or whatever, I think from this point of view, Postal is the most important movie after September 11. It's not respecting any edge, any border, any nation, any religion - it's an all-type offender. I think that only if everybody gets a little pissed about something then you will start thinking about your situation.

  Uwe Boll

  Hate, Thinking About You, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think it's better to be too early and disturb a few people - but have other people say it was necessary - than to do it way after the fact. We shouldn't forget that Charlie Chaplin did a movie about Hitler while Hitler was alive, and Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece Dr. Strangelove was during the McCarthy time, where everybody was a communist and McCarthy was flipping completely out. I think it's important to have a movie like Postal now, where we are on the peak of the Iraq War, on the peak of terrorist attacks, where everything is actually happening.

  Uwe Boll

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The main point is that I think if we want the Earth to survive and everybody to have a positive future, we have to stop thinking in terms of religions and races. We have to face that we are all on the planet Earth together, and we have to figure out how we all survive. It makes no sense if we are all driving hybrid cars, but China pumps massive amounts of CO2 in the air. If we don't start working together and find solutions - if every country thinks only in terms of, "First we, then the other nations" - then we will fail.

  Uwe Boll

  Country, Thinking, Car

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The Postal is a ruthless, Mad TV-type thing. We sent out a DVD to the South Park producers, and they liked the movie so much that we can say now, "It's like South Park with real actors" on the trailers and posters.

  Uwe Boll

  Real, Mad, Posters

  Source: www.avclub.com

• We did casting in L.A. and a lot of people came against the advice of their agents. The agents said, "You shouldn't be in Postal, it will damage your career." So Zack Ward came to casting and played one of the cop parts, and then later I looked at the DVDs again and said, "This guy is Postal Dude." He's like white trailer trash. He's had a long time in the film industry, but no real success. He needs money; he's two-times divorced in real life. He said he works only to pay off his Philippine ex-wife.

  Uwe Boll

  Real, Long, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.

  Uwe Boll

  Thinking, Vision, Directors

  Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. May 23, 2008.