Uwe Boll Quotes & Sayings

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere. — Uwe Boll

We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own. — Uwe Boll

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture. — Uwe Boll

House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do. — Uwe Boll

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present. — Uwe Boll

So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way. — Uwe Boll

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies. — Uwe Boll

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights. — Uwe Boll

I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries. — Uwe Boll

So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters. — Uwe Boll

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down. — Uwe Boll

My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect. — Uwe Boll

Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure. — Uwe Boll

Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously. — Uwe Boll

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy. — Uwe Boll

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket. — Uwe Boll

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie. — Uwe Boll

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact. — Uwe Boll

Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters-I think that shows the mood of the movie. — Uwe Boll

I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore. — Uwe Boll

Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government. — Uwe Boll

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today. — Uwe Boll

In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story. — Uwe Boll

If people hate me they hate me. — Uwe Boll

Actors don't have real value. — Uwe Boll

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead. — Uwe Boll

I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly. — Uwe Boll

We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne. — Uwe Boll