Paul W. S. Anderson Quotes

I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably 'Tomb Raider.' Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.

It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece.

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.

I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well.

I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one.

Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

I like film books at the bottom of the barrel and art books at the top. 'The Ghastly One,' by Jimmy McDonough, is a hilarious biography of one of the most hideous directors who ever picked up a movie camera - Andy Milligan.

I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.

My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.'

'Step Brothers' was like a reward for going through my whole career and somehow surviving.

I didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.'

That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.

There was a time when I was called the wizard of the box-office.

'Simon' was always a word-of-mouth book. When it came out in 2015, I don't know that anybody thought that 'Simon' could be mainstream. Publisher Harper Collins loved it in-house, but it wasn't a lead title. Nobody is more surprised than me that it's a film. It's the little book that could.

Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!

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.

I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.