A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games you have adventure, sci-fi, horror, action and even comedy. I think that people should accept more that video games are kind of like the best-selling books of the new generation.

Uwe Boll

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If people hate me they hate me. by Uwe Boll

If people hate me they hate me.

hate ifs people

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better tha... by Uwe Boll

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

horror house today

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

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

produce lows country

I think the harsh reviews helped, in that I spent way more energy in the preproduction and development. From this point of view, I'm very thankful for the harsh critics. I still think the critics were unnecessarily insulting in a lot of things, but I think it helped.

insulting energy thinking

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.

video games character

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.

want interesting moving

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

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

effects used thinking

Of course there are a lot of books that are interesting to make movies out of, but on the other hand, I think video games are also kind of like bestselling books for the younger generation, and the younger generation is the one going to the theaters.

book interesting thinking

My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrec... by Uwe Boll

My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.

favourite games

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.

shelter germany government

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

rights games house

Everybody says video-game adaptations are all the same, but I disagree. Normally, video-game adaptations are like Alone In The Dark, Resident Evil, Alien Vs. Predator - sci-fi creature stuff. But I think I've covered] a wide range of genres and time periods, like Transylvania in 1700 and now a Western with BlodRayne II, or adventure with Dungeon Siege, or comedy and satire with Postal.

dark adventure thinking

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors a... by Uwe Boll

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

impact heart america

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.

late actors way

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.

hollywood actors two

I always try to get games of different genres. This is the reason Postal is a comedy, and Far Cry is a real, pure action movie - like Die Hard on an island - and In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale was my opportunity to do my epic, Braveheart, Lord Of The Rings, Gladiator movie. I try not to repeat myself in genres too much.

epic real opportunity

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.

alive revenge stories

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I rea... by Uwe Boll

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

als nice sides

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.

dvds dark house

You don't need any courage today in Germany to make a movie about the Nazi time. You get all the subsidies, you get the TV stations, you get the good reviews. But you need courage to kick in the balls all the people that are still hiding under the blanket, and to say, "Oh, Adolf Hitler was maybe not so bad." And with my little Nazi jokes in Postal, I offended the Germans in a harsh time.

hiding today people