Action Films Quotes - Page 2

• In the past decade, there have been a lot of friends or directors, either gossiping or telling me directly, "What you're doing now is the right thing, your main concern should be taking care of yourself, and not doing action at your age." Well, after first feeling angry, I'd think, to be honest, I really am older. So I thought, all right, but before I retire I'd like to make one last major action film, one good one.

  Jackie Chan

  Past, Thinking, Feelings

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• You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Two, Way, Roles

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• Even with some of the best action films like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.

  William Friedkin

  Thinking, Action, Computer

  "Inside the Forgotten Movie Masterpiece 'Sorcerer'". Interview with Bryan Reesman, www.esquire.com. April 30, 2014.

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• One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Real, Mistake, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever." This is mostly the action film dudes, like, "Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!"

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Thinking, Ego, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Growing Up, Men, Blow

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• There's something very terrifying about that and very primal about it. It's my belief that what horror does for people is that it provides that primal fear that, when we were wild hunter-gatherers, we had as part of our natural lives because maybe something was trying to hunt and gather you as well. We don't have that anymore in life and that's one of the things that horror films and action films provide for us.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  People, Trying, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a big fan of the 70's action films. Where there is a lot of character and a lot of great action, but the action is kind of cemented with a great back-story with characters. And I thought, this kind of reminded me of the movies that, early on when I was telling Dwayne (Johnson) and the guys, the producer... my whole thing is if you look at a movie like The Driver by Walter Hill, it's a film where there's no names. They are just named, "the driver", "the cop".

  George Tillman, Jr.

  Character, Names, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say "I'll be back baby" and stuff. It's not my style.

  George Lucas

  Baby, Smart, Thinking

  "Star Wars archive: George Lucas 1999 interview". Interview with Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. September 1999.

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• We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do romantic comedies. I love all this stuff. So, if I find the good material, I'll do it.

  James Wan

  Fans, Want, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• The world of Ultimate Spider-Man is funny. I can't imagine a live-action film where he's Principal Coulson and dealing with some of the pranks from these guys.

  Clark Gregg

  Men, Guy, Spiders

  Source: collider.com

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• I love doing action films that do challenge me physically. I feel it's my job to keep my stamina up and be as physically fit as possible, so that I can just jump in and do it. It takes its toll sometimes and it's hard work, but I love that.

  Julie Benz

  Jobs, Hard Work, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Editing, People, Action

  Source: screenrant.com

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• An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

  Shane Black

  Cacophony, Too Much, Action

  "Crash, bang, wallop what a picture". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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• You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can't let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically.

  Nicolas Cage

  People, Trying, Labels

  "Toronto Film Festival 2013 Q&A: Joe's Nicolas Cage". Interview with David Fear, www.timeout.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I would love to try action films.

  Tracy Morgan

  Trying, Action, Film

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2008.

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• I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

  Wesley Snipes

  Action, Kind, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

  Taylor Lautner

  Drama, Character, Giving

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

  Vin Diesel

  Appreciation, Understanding, Dresses

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• The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

  Don Bluth

  Running, Sex, Rocks

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them.

  Joel Silver

  Stupid, Proud, Action

  "'V For Vendetta' - Joel Silver/James McTeigue interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

  Renny Harlin

  Dollars, Actors, Littles

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• Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

  Park Chan-wook

  Heart, Coward, Violence

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• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  Famke Janssen

  Wise, Fighting, Careers

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• Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Character, Ribs, Stories

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