Rupert Sanders
Rupert Sanders
Rupert Miles Sandersis an English film director...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth16 March 1971
best limited quite success
We just did the best we could with quite a limited budget, to be honest, and had a lot of success.
million queue sat standing ten
Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.
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.
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?
thinking political fiction
I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.
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'.
reality trying important
Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.
queens children heart
I don't love balls and sleeping beauties, that kind of thing. I think the great thing about 'Snow White' is those images have scarred me since I was a child with the Queen, the mirror, the taking of the heart, the huntsman and the enchanted forest.
reading writing directors
I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.
people tables littles
So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.