“It's all based around the idea that basically VW cars are space age. They're the worst cars to use in action movie, because all the things you want to traditionally do in an action movie they won't allow you to do, because they make you drive safely if you want to or not.” IfsWantIdeasUseAgeActionSpaceWorstCarAction MovieDrive Safely Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“These commercials, I directed them all from inside the tracking vehicle, so I was traveling about 85mph most of the time, so there wasn't really anyone sitting beside me other than the driver. But, you know, yeah the agency is there and VW is there, which is- they're paying for it all and also because the agency created the boards, they want to make sure that you're not going off the rails in executing it. And also they can help, because they- it's a very different thing to cinema.” KnowsWantDifferentHelpingSittingYeahCinemaBoardsAgencyDifferent ThingsDriversVehicleRailTrackingExecuting Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“Death Race was a very modern action movie and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts. In 3D, I didn't want to do that anymore.” WantHandsActionUsedRaceCuttingModernMovementCamerasTechniqueAction MovieZoomDeath Race Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“I always run the stories by Capcom. They read the scripts and give their comments. I would never want to kill a character that they really want to use in the next game.” WantGivingCharacterStoriesUseRunningNextGamesScriptsComment Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“It's a very different experience shooting in 3-D because the camera rigs are so large. Everything we've become accustomed to in the last ten years as filmmakers, which is cameras getting smaller and smaller and you can just throw them on your shoulder and stick them in a car and do whatever you want, you can't do any of that now. You're forced to put things on dollies and track and cranes.” WantYearsDifferentLastsCarTenCamerasSticksTrackShouldersShootingFilmmakerAccustomedDo Whatever You WantDifferent ExperiencesCranesRigs 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