Rob Cohen Quotes (9 Quotes)

I was glad that the protesters prevailed and we didn't shoot there. The sad fact is that that movies, at their core, are environmentally unfriendly.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

Be happy or die.

If I do The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad I'll definitely be coming back to Australia for all the interior work, ... I'd do the exteriors in southern China. Frankly, the Stealth experience merely proved that if you do run into problems in Australia, you can solve them.

I think there's a love of infamy and heroism that doesn't play into the zeitgeist,

This director had a pretty specific idea that he wanted to make this movie as realistic as possible and he created this device called a gimble. Its basically a human eggbeater that they stuck the end of the cockpit onto so that you can recreate. And I think one of the very beautiful things about this movie is its seamless in terms of the CGI and the mix of putting me and Jessica and Jamie inside of the CGI and looking like were flying. You would be surprised that these planes are not real much less not flying.

I wanted a woman who had the body and the power of a real pilot. I interviewed hundreds of woman, but Jessica just seemed perfect for the part. I couldn't get her out of my head. I continued to bother her and she finally gave in.

We built these amazing-looking futuristic planes entirely in Australia at Fox Studios. The techno stuff, Lizzy Gardiner's costumes ... I can't rave about the place enough, and if my next project comes off I'd shoot it in Australia without hesitation.

That whole thing with the dragonfly in the Blue Mountains, that really wasn't anything to do with Stealth , ... It could have been a movie about two people at a picnic making love in the woods. We were sort of caught in the middle of someone else's fight.