Paul W. S. Anderson Quotes

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.

If you want to do a female version of 'The Expendables,' I'll be in that one.

When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film.

I remember every moment of every gunfight I've ever been in.

The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.

I'd like to be in a female version of The Fugitive. Something where I don't have to be ripped up like an action star, but be a normal, healthy lady who is framed and on the run. I'd have to run from explosions and punch people in the face but not rappel down a building.

Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great deal of violence at a level we haven't seen since probably the Korean War or World War II, where you have big armies facing off against one another.

Red Sonja, she was a hellraiser before Buffy, Xena, and Ripley even existed. When so many heroines in comics were all hung up on romance and the bizarre gender politics of comics at the time, Sonja was out cutting off the heads of dragons and pirates.

The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967.

I'm not a war reporter.

People want to hear what I do with Special Forces, as a ranger, as a sniper. And I'm like 'What does that have to do with fighting?' Let's talk about fighting. They couldn't be more different; there's nothing similar about them.

When 'I' released, I gave a couple of interviews in which I expressed my interest to play an action heroine.

I am a very good sniper, and I can put five bullets into that red circle and I know how to throw hand grenades.

I wish someone would make an Indian equivalent of 'Kill Bill' with me. That would be awesome.

Shooters shoot.

The Special Forces is an aggressive and violent organisation. I wouldn't want to see a woman going through that and getting shot at.

In 'The Condemned,' if you saw the movie, that's all me; I'll go toe to toe with anyone in an action movie.

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.