Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

I think 'Lost' didn't invent the flashback, obviously. It's been a cinematic tool. It's been around almost as long as cinema has.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

A modern audience is capable of processing just so much information because they're used to visual media that's on overload.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

When I first came to Hollywood to make 'Mortal Kombat' back in the day, there was this rule that female-led action movies don't work and American studios didn't want to make them.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

When you watch movies in Britain, the reaction when people hate a movie is... they just politely get up and leave at the end. And when they love a movie... they just politely get up and leave at the end.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

I've had that recurring dream since I was a child, and a lot of people have different versions of that same dream, where you're running away from something, and it's going kind of slowly, but it's catching up with you, and it will not stop, and you cannot get away from it. Those dreams are manifested in different ways, but most people have them.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

I think one of the joys of disaster movies is not knowing who's going to live and who's going to die.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

I've always - from my very first film, 'Shopping,' which was Jude Law and Sadie Frost, I mean, I've always liked strong women characters in films.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

I think 'Death Race 2000' is a classic, but it's a classic from the 1970s, and I think it's a particular kind of drive-in-exploitation movie satire masterpiece, and it was very much a movie of its time.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

I think, quite often, filmmakers kind of think so much about what the franchise will be and sometimes can neglect to put their efforts into the movie that they are actually making.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

I've always felt that there's a lot of similarity between doing a comedy and doing a scary movie because jokes and scares are all about timing. If you give the punch line too early or too late, the joke falls flat. And it's the same with a scare.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

You can't just shoot your way out of every scenario in 'Resident Evil' games. You have to use your intelligence.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

My grandfather, who brought me up, was a coal miner. I visited the mines with him. I remember it vividly. It was horrible. I'm glad I didn't go into the family business.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

I grew up in the north of England, in New Castle, which is where Hadrian's Wall starts on the east coast of England and then goes across to the west.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality, and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

TV is something that me and my wife watch a lot.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

I started in television in the U.K., and I've always wanted to get back into TV.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

One of my favorite countries in the world is Japan, and I've spent a huge amount of time there.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

When you make people a lot of money, it gives you leverage in Hollywood.

Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson

The attraction of watching a movie called 'Alien vs. Predator' is you're anticipating - and the movie has to deliver - battle scenes and fight scenes between the two creatures.