“I love Death Race, it's one of my favorite films. I thought, "You know what? All that two years worth of work is now gong to be wasted because I'm highly unlikely to direct another car movie straight away," and I felt at that point there was no one who was kind of better at shooting cars, so I thought rather than let it go to waste I would explore the idea of doing commercials, and that's what I did.” KnowsYearsKindTwoIdeasFilmFeltRaceCarWasteDirectMy FavoriteShootingTwo YearsUnlikelyLet It GoLove DeathGongsDeath Race Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“The first job I did was Volkswagen, we shot it in Long Beach, and it was like they won multiple awards with it and they were super excited about it and that kind of launched me into the world of commercials. Still most of what I do is car-related stuff.” WorldFirstsKindLongStillsJobsStuffCarShotsExcitedBeachRelatedAwardsMultipleVolkswagensLong Beach Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“The way it works in commercials is they come to you with the script and then you do the visual, you do the storyboards, and you give your vision of it, but it's very much their baby. You just kind of put your polish and sheen on it, and you're interpretation of it, but it's very much the agency's idea.” WayGivingKindIdeasVisionBabyScriptsAgencyVisualsInterpretationPolish Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“Commercials are also any opportunity to meet new crew and work with new kind of rigs. You can explore working with different people without having to make the full commitment of having to do an entire feature film with them and see whether you like them. Also it's great for testing out new equipment, like on the last spot we just did, I used a lot of drone technology, really cutting edge drone stuff, more than I've ever done before, and it worked out really really well.” PeopleWellsKindDifferentDoneLastsFilmUsedOpportunityStuffTechnologyCuttingCommitmentEdgesSpotsFeaturesCrewEquipmentTestingDifferent PeoplesDronesCutting EdgeRigs Author: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. It's nice- that again, is another nice thing about being able to do commercials is, you can get out of the house and chase high speed cars around for a few days and then by the time you go back, you're kind of re-infused to write.” WritingKindAbleJobsHouseNiceCarSpeedCupsTeaSolitaryNice ThingsCups Of TeaHigh SpeedProcessors Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“I was excited about the fourth movie I guess conceptually because, what I felt we should do it, we should try to make it a conceptual jump like Terminator did to T2. It was still the Terminator franchise, but it was something kind of bigger and grander.” ShouldTryingKindStillsFeltBiggerExcitedFourth Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“I had the opportunity to work with Aliens and Predators when Resident Evil 2 was being made and it was for two different studios. It was for Fox and Sony. They don't care about one another. They just want their movies. So it was very difficult to delay one and... So I had to make a very painful decision to kind of step away from directing the second movie and with the third movie it was the same.” WantKindMadeTwoDifferentCareEvilOpportunityDifficultDecisionStepsThirdsPainfulStudiosDon't CareAliensFoxesDelayPredatorResidentsSonyResident Evil Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“You really feel like you're on the cutting edge and you know you are because all the camera equipment you take for granted doesn't exist for 3-D. So all the cranes with all the stabilized heads, they don't work on 3-D because they're all built for lightweight camera packages. As soon as you kind of put two cameras together and all the other crap that they need and the cabling to go back to the computers, we've literally, the cranes on these movies, they break after a couple of days.” KnowsNeedsFeelsKindTwoTogetherBreakCuttingLike YouCoupleComputerBuiltCamerasEdgesGrantedCrapEquipmentPackagesCutting EdgeCranes Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
