“When I made my first film, 'Shopping,' the reviews were incredibly sno...” — Paul W. S. Anderson Quote

When I made my first film, 'Shopping,' the reviews were incredibly snooty. They said things like, 'Jude Law is too pretty for the role,' and that's why I don't respect the British press. That kind of small-minded thing doesn't consider what people like.

Growing up, I wanted to make the kind of movies that would play in a multiplex, and those were the kinds of movies I ended up making.

You can film the most exciting car chase and the most exciting stunts, but if you don't care about the person inside the car, and you don't care about their predicament, you're not really going to care about the action, either.

I had played 'Mortal Kombat' back I arcades in London, and I loved it. I came to the movies as a genuine fan of the intellectual property, and I think that counts for a lot.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Bands rise and surface in the British press so regularly that, for the most part, unless something really catches my ear, I feel like, 'Oh, if they're still around in two years, I'll see what they're up to.'

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.