Blizzards are very, very hard to shoot. They're very uncomfortable, the crew hates them, the actors hate them. I hate them because they sometimes look really fake, and then you have to do them again. It's really no joy to shoot a blizzard. It's probably also not a joy to be in one.
Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.
I rewatched all the disaster movies and realized how relevant they are because in disaster movies, there's also a common noble person as the face against a totally extreme overwhelming enemy.
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.
I'm only a stupid filmmaker.
It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.
It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
Soccer is becoming more and more popular in the United States especially with kids, and I think every kid who plays soccer in America loves Manchester United. There was never any question we were going to use any other team in the movie and it got a big chuckle at some of the test screenings!
There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.
There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.
When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.
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