Latest Paul W. S. Anderson Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I find it terribly distracting in movies when people do accents, I must say, unless it's terribly serious and the story is rooted in South Africa and you're doing a South African accent. But in period movies I think nothing can be more distracting than people doing accents.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Thinking, People, Serious

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• There was a lot of pressure on me as a filmmaker to raise the bar and do better than before so, you know, I put a lot of thought and energy, that's for sure.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Energy, Filmmaker

  Source: screenrant.com

• You really feel like you're on the cutting edge and you know you are because all the camera equipment you take for granted doesn't exist for 3-D. So all the cranes with all the stabilized heads, they don't work on 3-D because they're all built for lightweight camera packages. As soon as you kind of put two cameras together and all the other crap that they need and the cabling to go back to the computers, we've literally, the cranes on these movies, they break after a couple of days.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Couple, Cutting, Two

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• I had this movie, Death Race, that was a passion project for me that I'd had in development for almost ten years.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Passion, Race, Years

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• I had the opportunity to work with Aliens and Predators when Resident Evil 2 was being made and it was for two different studios. It was for Fox and Sony. They don't care about one another. They just want their movies. So it was very difficult to delay one and... So I had to make a very painful decision to kind of step away from directing the second movie and with the third movie it was the same.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Opportunity, Two, Evil

  Source: collider.com

• It's a very different experience shooting in 3-D because the camera rigs are so large. Everything we've become accustomed to in the last ten years as filmmakers, which is cameras getting smaller and smaller and you can just throw them on your shoulder and stick them in a car and do whatever you want, you can't do any of that now. You're forced to put things on dollies and track and cranes.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Years, Different Experiences, Track

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 3D is very exciting. I love it. I'm a complete convert. Everything for me, from now on, is 3D. I'm completely convinced it's the future of home entertainment, as well as cinema entertainment. I think it's a paradigm shift, in terms of cinema, and those things don't happen very often. The introduction of sound, the introduction of color photography and now 3D have been the big shifts. They happen once every 40 or 50 years, so it's very exciting to be a filmmaker, working while one of them is happening.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Photography, Home, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com