Paul W. S. Anderson Quotes

I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

I've never been part of a movie I would watch over and over again, and I'm really proud of it.

I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

I try not to repeat myself too often, but it's a gamble. 'Fred Claus' had three Oscar winners in it. No business - it was a bad movie.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.