What are you going to do now? I just wrapped a remake of The Poseidon Adventure .. Lady in the Water.

- Wolfgang Petersen

Every film starts with the script.

- Wolfgang Petersen

I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

- Wolfgang Petersen

You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch. And you have an awful lot of input …

- Wolfgang Petersen

I always look for nature or natural lighting within buildings and within rooms that has been done by somebody else to suit their needs. I look at it …

- Wolfgang Petersen

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the…

- Wolfgang Petersen

Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.

- Wolfgang Petersen