Paul W. S. Anderson

“I've been obsessed with Romans since I was a child.”

“You are only as good as the movie you make. I really believe that.”

“True 3D is, you have to kind of originate the images in three dimensions.”

“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.”

“I had played 'Mortal Kombat' back I arcades in London, and I loved it. I came to the movies as a genuine fan of the intellectual property, and I think that counts for a lot.”

“A pivotal moment for me as a filmmaker was when I saw 'Total Recall,' the Arnold Schwarzenegger version, which was the first movie I saw in America.”

“I think if you're watching 'Dumb and Dumber,' I don't know whether you need to buy the Blu-ray of a comedy or something like that. But if you're watching 'Event Horizon,' 'Death Race,' 'Alien vs. Predator' I mean, I think these movies are definitely enhanced by the Blu-ray experience.”

“Pompeii was an incredibly corrupt city. Pompeii was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire.”

“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.”

“A modern audience is capable of processing just so much information because they're used to visual media that's on overload.”

“I very much see 'Resident Evil' as my franchise that I kicked, screaming, into life.”

“'AVP' is not trying to be 'Alien' or 'Aliens,' and it's not trying to be 'Predator.' Those are genius movies.”

“If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.”

“I think 'Death Race 2000' is a classic, but it's a classic from the 1970s, and I think it's a particular kind of drive-in-exploitation movie satire masterpiece, and it was very much a movie of its time.”

“Tolkien was influenced by South Africa when he was writing 'Lord of the Rings.' It's really epic scenery.”

“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.”

“Being British, you see a lot of Australian movies and TV shows.”

“I'm staying in my wheelhouse, not making any romantic comedies in a hurry.”

“I think when people think of Pompeii, they think it was just destroyed by the volcano. Yes, it was the eruption of the volcano that eventually caused the pyroclastic surge that swept over Pompeii and destroyed it for good. But also, they had to face the effects of a very extreme earthquake and a tidal wave that swept in from the Bay of Naples.”

“I don't think it would be possible for me to respect people like Ridley Scott or James Cameron more than I already do. They're gods of filmmaking.”