Paul W. S. Anderson Quotes

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.

I kind of like '2001.'

I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.

The main stuff I like is from the late '60s to the early '90s. That's the stuff I love. It's the James Cameron's and the Paul Verhoven stuff. I guess when I was younger, 'Star Wars' had an influence.

Acting in more science fiction films would be fine by me. I love doing them.

My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up until the wee hours to watch 'Outer Limits,' 'Night Gallery,' 'Twilight Zone,' and 'Star Trek.' We lived to watch those reruns.

I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.

I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.

I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.

'Terminator 2' is so good. I love it.

As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.

I love the role of Ripley.

Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction.

The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'

Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.

'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its un-Earthly vistas are spectral and spectacular.

I saw 'Fifth Element' once when it first came out and never thought much of it.

It was fun working with Will Smith; it was fun working with Alex Proyas, who is another sci-fi guy with 'Dark City.'

When you go into something like a space movie, you think there's going to be no music or little music.

I feel that 'Rudraksh' is Mani Shankar's answer to Steven Spielberg.

Me and my comedy writer friends talk a lot about how we love 'Die Hard,' but we'll never be able to write 'Die Hard.'

Working with Gale Anne Hurd has been a dream of mine. I mean, I grew up watching 'Terminator' and 'Aliens' and watching Sigourney Weaver just slay!