‘Showgirls’: The erotic thriller with “no true eroticism”, according to Roger Ebert
“Such a waste of a perfectly good NC-17 rating.”
Paul Verhoeven
Why ‘Total Recall’ made Sharon Stone swear off Hollywood: “I’m not gonna work until I get a job I care about”
A role in this sci-fi classic made Stone want to leave it all behind.
‘RoboCop’: The classic Paul Verhoeven movie that should have starred Rutger Hauer
“He was like an alter ego for me.”
The only Paul Verhoeven movie he admits he can’t defend: “It really is not me anymore”
Verhoeven tried to make something conventional but ended up hating it.
Paul Verhoeven names his favourite action movies: “A lot of splendour”
He’s made some of the greats.
Paul Verhoeven’s favourite Alfred Hitchcock movie: “He is able to seduce you”
The two directors have often been compared.
The actor Paul Verhoeven compared to Meryl Streep: “She was limitless”
“I found the less I did, the better it got.”
The anti-fascist leanings of Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Starship Troopers’
“I wanted the audience to be asking, ‘Are these people crazy?'”