Paul W. S. Anderson Quotes

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

I didn't grow up like Quentin Tarantino, watching esoteric art films at the video store. I'd go to the multiplex and see big, mainstream movies, and I'd go, 'I want to make one of those one day.'

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

Getting a movie made is a miracle... because the studios are only interested in making 'The Avengers.'

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

Big feature films are another world.

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.