Gina Gershon Quotes

I loved 'The Matrix,' so when they asked me to do some animation relating to it, I was thrilled.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

I would love to do some type of action feature. That's my goal. A really cool, Transformers-type feature would be awesome.

I was really young, like nine, when I saw the first 'Terminator', and I was amazed by the world they created, and everything James Cameron did.

When I was 14, I saw 'Terminator 2.' My mind was blown. What a beautiful movie. I found it really deep and also so entertaining.

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

In terms of big spectacle, I thought 'Captain America 2' was phenomenal. I really loved that movie, and it was a great movie as a stand-alone.

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.

I think you should check out 'Battle: Los Angeles' because it really is a sci-fi movie, but it's not. It's not like anything you've seen before. The best way to describe it is it's a war movie that happens to have aliens as the enemy.

When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then 'Star Wars' came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with 'Close Encounters,' and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome.

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'

Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

For me, to get to play an action hero in a science fiction film is a marriage of two genres that I'm a huge fan of.

I love being part of the 'Avatar' family.

'The Terminator' is grounded in so much realism. It's again a story that centers around a woman that isn't a 'woman's picture' necessarily. I found it really thrilling, both 'Terminator 1' and '2.' When you watch it it's such fine storytelling.

'Boss' is a big scale entertainer... It is my first film of this kind.

On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!

I worked with Michael Bay on 'Transformers,' and I got to work with the writer of 'Transformers,' who's this really great guy whom I loved.

'Transformers: The Last Knight' is a different kind of movie.

I'm a huge fan of 'Predator.'

Definitely it is difficult to maintain the Hollywood stylized action that we had in 'Kick.'

The sets were incredible. You would walk in at 6 in the morning, and we were really living in 'Blade Runner.'