Rupert Sanders
Rupert Sanders
Rupert Miles Sandersis an English film director...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth16 March 1971
mcdonalds years down-and
Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie. Ive been working in commercials for ten years.
essence darkness fairy-tale
I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.
mean wish bigger-and-better
I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.
emotional thinking needs
I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.
thinking games risk
I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?
character world fit
Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.
thinking political fiction
I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.
america ideas wanted
I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.
filmmaker feels
I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.
thinking epic trying
I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things graphically in a way that they haven't been seen in that world before.
once-upon-a-time stories ever-after
Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.
character casting actors
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.