A.C. Anderson Quotes
How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.
We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.
I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.
I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
When people see what real 3D looks like, they'll go, "Oh, that's why I spend an extra $5 a cinema ticket. That's worth it!"
3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt like I was making my first movie, all over again.
I think 3-D across the board both in a home format and cinema is, it's going to be very big.
One of the reasons why Resident Evil is a very successful video game franchise, much more so than a lot of others that have fallen by the wayside, is that they have constantly evolved.
I really believe in 3-D. I really think it is the wave of the future for cinema.
Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight answer about anything.
I had this movie, Death Race, that was a passion project for me that I'd had in development for almost ten years.
There was a lot of pressure on me as a filmmaker to raise the bar and do better than before so, you know, I put a lot of thought and energy, that's for sure.
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.
If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.
I went for a more classical approach to filmmaking with lots of dolly, track and cranes, and slightly slower, more choreographed fight moves, so you get more fight moves in one take.
Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?
Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.
These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.
Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery
A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.
Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.
The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.
You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so.
So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.
I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.
All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.
For what constitutes a Christian is not; accepting the Christian's creed, but accepting Christ as Savior and Lord. It is a question of personal loyalty and love.
I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.
If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.
We've been gifted with the power of choice...in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.
The more I push myself to take a risk, the less afraid I am to take a risk the next time. Each time I do, I expand my circle of comfort and my life becomes BIGGER.
You have a good life when there are things to smile about today...and to motivate you for tomorrow.
The MOST important concept in achieving a BIG goal is to 'Powerfully Believe in Yourself!' If you have that, who can stop you?
