"There's clearly a disguised statement about propaganda films of the Third Reich."

"It's certainly also talking about American politics now. And so it is really saying as we have perceived in the past twenty, thirty years that there is a tendency in American politics that if people disagree that we would use power and violence. [...] Power and violence is always used at a certain moment when things take too much time to solve in a democratic way."

"There are no politics here. This is just basically big and ugly bugs on the table here."

"I fully agree with [Carmen]. I think that she should just take career above the guy. And why not? She can always go back to the guy."

"'The slut should have died.' That was on one of the cards--multiple cards--at the end of the screening at the previews."

"Biologically, fascist elements are perhaps available in the human species."

"The only thing that we could do Phil and I is to be the bugs and to yell and scream and run towards [the actors] in the rehearsal so that they would be getting some feeling of what was going on."

"It's also one of the few movies I remember that where I have had somebody telling his partner that he loves her, or that she loves him. In this case it's Dizzy telling Johnny that she loves him."

"Here you have a little sadomasochistic moment in the [Dizzy and Rico love] scene. It's very light but there's a little reference to that of course, which still makes it a scene that belongs to a movie which has my signature."

"It confirms what the Washington post wrote about me when the movie came out: the notoriously perverted director Paul Verhoeven."

"Everybody who didn't like the movie is bad in my opinion."

"It's difficult perhaps to accept in a movie that the people that are your bosses, that are your government, that are supposed to be taking care of you, ultimately don't take care of you and care only about a war that might not have been necessary in the first place."

"All of us I think when there is a war going on and we feel that we are threatened, for good or for right reasons, true or not true, we will ultimately think that it is more important to fight for the species than for ourselves."

"Everything you've heard about the shower scene is true."

"It was our intention to have everyone look beautiful but a lot of critics were holding that against the movie, that everybody looked too good to be true."

"A lot of the things that Neumeier invented were just because they sounded good, not because they have much meaning."

"[The squashed bugs in the propaganda film] were not alive, I think. We tricked the audience a little bit there you know."

"We were inspired by the posters and by the slogans and even by the philosophy of the second World War."

"I felt that it was important to have these young people really young, so that the innocence would be there in the beginning and you would not feel it was a cheat."

"We tried to find [actors] that were resembling a proto-fascist ideal."

"It's a very pure society, and the language that we use is a little bit of the 50s."

"[The bugs] are not necessarily bad. They are just defending their territory."

"When I did publicity for Hollow Man, [the critics] now said, that how come after doing such a beautiful movie like Starship Troopers you did such a piece of shit like Hollow Man."

Verhoeven did over 4000 storyboards himself before filming began.

In the original scene where Carmen scrapes the asteroid, a couple people were sucked out of the ship into space. The studio had them change it because they felt the captain wouldn't compliment Carmen afterwards.

The rolling explosion effect was a mile long. Biggest explosion effect in film history.

Michael Ironside's arm was a remote controlled prosthesis.

The studio wanted to take out the throwing up scene by Denise Richards because they thought it was too gory.

The audio in the psychic card test scene had to be looped because the ferret's trainers were talking too much during the filming of it.

The ferret was a turtle in the original script.

Paul told Dina Meyer to hit Casper VD harder in the football scene.

The actors went to boot camp for 11 days to prepare for their infantry scenes.

Dina Meyer refused to test for the part of Carmen because she liked the Dizzy part better.

Denise suggested Patrick Muldoon for the part.

Real ammunition was used in the target shooting sequence.

Acoording to Paul, the movie would only have had to be cut by about 20 seconds to make it a PG-13.

The burning Buenos Aires is footage of Malibu brushfires.

The troopers landing scene is based on the newsreels of the Landing of Normandy.

During one scene, Casper accidentally shot a hole in the camera.

Jake Busey passed out from heat exhaustion during the badlands shoot.

Paul never finished the novel of Starship Troopers. He thought it was too philosophical and depressing.

The propaganda minis were based on WW2 propaganda films.

The film received a critical drubbing in many countries (including the US) because of what people perceived as fascist-leaning overtones.

Tippett Studio Phil Tippett, the guy who did the effects for Starship Troopers and Robocop, among others, explains how an fx sequence in ST was done.

VFX HQ: Starship Troopers A very impressive and detailed description of the effects work done for Starship Troopers. If you're interested in fx at all, you'll want to check this out.

Starship Troopers (movie.de) Information about the actors, special effects, and film facts.

Starship Troopers: Fascists of the Future This a review of the movie by New American, who (erroneously) believe the film to be fascist/Nazi propaganda. Their damning commentary: "In many scenes, Starship Troopers looks like a WWII film shot from the Nazi perspective." Well, duh.

Gaumont - Starship Troopers The official French movie site, which as usual is far better than its American equivalent. A good photo gallery, video clips, and an informative article about the special effects highlight the site.

French Press Release Lots of stuff about the movie, including quotes from Verhoeven and Jon Davison. In French.

Fednet News Pictures and MP3s from the movie.

RollingStone.com A collection of ST photos.

Rotten Tomatoes Starship Troopers Links to reviews of the movie.

MOVIEWEB: Starship Troopers A decent collection of stills from the film, both color and B&W.

Starship Troopers (atinternet.com) Lots of pictures, links, and info on the movie and the book. In French.

TrooperPX This site calls itself the "Starship Troopers Reference Collection" but a lot of their pages don't seem to work.

Starship Troopers HL Mod This is a really cool site in French, with pics I haven't seen anywhere else. Maybe they are on the French release of the DVD or something.

SciFlicks.com Starship Troopers Lots of stuff related to the movie, including semi-current fan discussion. A good place to look as a catch-all resource.

Starship Troopers Screenplay The shooting script by Ed Neumeier.

The Unofficial Starship Troopers Information Site This fansite has tons of good stuff related to Starship Troopers, but it only works in IE. It doesn't work at all in Netscape 6.x, but it might in older versions of Netscape.

Starship Troopers (sony.com) This is the official (American) movie site, which of course is all shiny graphics and Flash stuff and almost no decent content. Not really worth looking at unless you like seeing the same graphics again and again no matter which button you click on (grrrr).

LoveProng Starship Troopers Review A thorough and positive review of the film, part of LoveProng's "Mad Dutchman Month" in April 2002. See also RoboCop.

Jon Davison and Ed Neumeier Chat This interesting chat is from just before Staship Troopers was released.

Jon Davison/Ed Neumeier Chat This very confusing chat looks like a precursor to the one above.