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“'Pompeii' is definitely a passion project for me.”
“3D is obviously not as suited to drama and romantic comedies. But for what I do, I felt that 3D was a very, very appropriate technology.”
“I'm a big 3-D convert.”
“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 think one of the joys of disaster movies is not knowing who's going to live and who's going to die.”
“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 really believe that, as filmmakers, we have a duty, which is, if we're asking people to pay a premium price for a 3D ticket, we have a duty to deliver a premium product.”
“I started in television in the U.K., and I've always wanted to get back into TV.”
“I've always seen myself as a populist filmmaker.”
“I don't read reviews anymore.”
“I guess it seemed like a natural thing to set 'AvP' in the world of the Alien, rather than the world of the Predator. I always liked the idea of it being on earth.”
“I'm definitely of a generation that's very influenced by videogames.”
“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.”
“Sleep is a outmoded concept. It's best not to think about sleep.”
“One of my favorite countries in the world is Japan, and I've spent a huge amount of time there.”
“I really believe, especially with 3D, you kind of have to approach it as this holistic thing. You have to kind of mount a 3D movie; you can't just add 3D as a kind of a special sauce sprinkled on top of a dish afterwards to give you an extra 20-percent in theater grosses, which I think is the way a lot of studios perceive it.”
“I saw 'Spacehunter 3-D.' It gave me a headache.”
“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 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.”
“I love 'Death Race.' It's one of my favorite films.”