Paul Verhoeven Quotes

#1. Whether you're a believer or not, a flawed biblical epic is going to be more entertaining than a remake of a Paul Verhoeven movie or some third-rate sci-fi flick.

David Harsanyi

#2. Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

Judah Friedlander

#3. The original WAS a fun film. [Paul] Verhoeven made a couple of 'Robocops' that were so great, too. I think the level of excitement is great and Arnie [Schwarzenegger] was particularly charismatic with that chopped up English, and the size of the man with his confidence and sense of humor.

Colin Farrell

#4. I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

Patricia Clarkson

#5. 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.

Paul Verhoeven

#6. If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.

Shunryu Suzuki

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

Paul Verhoeven

#8. Epicurus ... supposes not only all mixt bodies, but all others to be produced by the various and casual occursions of atoms, moving themselves to and fro by an internal principle in the immense or rather infinite vacuum.

Robert Boyle

#9. Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

James Rozoff

#10. Not even you can save the whole galaxy before breakfast.

Claudia Gray

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

Paul Verhoeven

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

Paul Verhoeven

#13. There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

Rachel Simmons

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

Paul Verhoeven

#15. Beauty is a perilous gift ...

Ellis Peters

#16. 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.

Paul Verhoeven

#17. The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.

Sophia Loren

#18. He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#19. The Rosary is a priceless treasure inspired by God.

Louis De Montfort

#20. You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

Richard Seymour

#21. People confuse me. Food doesn't.

Anthony Bourdain

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

Paul Verhoeven

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

Paul Verhoeven