Paul Verhoeven Quotes

#1. Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.

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#2. Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.

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#3. I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.

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#4. Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

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#5. My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.

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#6. Everything you have heard about the shower scene is true.

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#7. I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

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#8. People love seeing violence and horrible things. The human being is bad and can't stand more than five minutes of happiness. Put him in a dark theater and ask him to look at two hours of happiness, and he'd walk out or fall asleep.

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