Action Movie Quotes - Page 3

• I grew up with comic books and cartoons and action movies. To find myself in the position to do work in these mediums is just an opportunity I couldn't have even asked for. It's just pure luck, really.

  Hoon Lee

  Book, Opportunity, Luck

  Source: collider.com

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• I wanted to do something that dealt with more of paranormal techniques that wasn't a horror movie. It is an action movie that deals with a special operations group. But if a Tier One team went in to take out Bin Laden today, if you had those kind of abilities, of course you would use that kind of group. And it was more going into that arena. And I wanted to make it feel more like, grounded, as if we had this ability.

  Len Wiseman

  Team, Special, Use

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• I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Action, Classic Movie, Grew Up

  Source: deadline.com

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• Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.

  Wade Eastwood

  Fighting, Car, Training

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.

  Steven Spielberg

  Drama, Eye, Makeup

  Source: collider.com

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• I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly Bond.

  Marc Forster

  Action, Wanted

  "Bond Week Interview: Quantum of Solace Director Marc Forster". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. November 11, 2008.

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• Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream. Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

  Robert Englund

  Dream, People, Scary

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So each of the commercials- basically it's an action movie cliché. "Bus" is very much inspired by Speed obviously, where you have a high-jacked out of control bus, and you have heroes who are trying to jump from a moving vehicle to the bus and they just can't do it because the moving vehicle can't get close enough, because all these VW cars have this distancing technology, which is really fantastic.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Moving, Hero, Technology

  Source: collider.com

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• I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

  Doug Liman

  People, Dumb, Action

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• Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.

  Michael Jai White

  Drama, Cutting, Thinking

  "Black Dynamite's Michael Jai White and Scott Sanders: The Movieline Interview". Interview with S.T. Vanairsdale, movieline.com. October 14, 2009.

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• The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

  Marcus Dunstan

  Drama, Safety, Imagination

  "Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton up ante with 'The Collection'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I was very happy with Vampire's Kiss, which in my opinion was almost like an independent laboratory to start realizing some of my more expressionistic dreams with film performance. Then using what I had learned in Vampire's Kiss and putting it into a very big action movie in the form of Face/Off with John Woo. If you look at those two movies back to back, you can see where I stole from my performance in Vampire's Kiss.

  Nicolas Cage

  Dream, Independent, Kissing

  "Nicolas Cage: ‘Personal Issues Don’t Have a Place in Film Commentary’" by Eliza Berman, time.com. August 7, 2015.

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• I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.

  Jason Statham

  Writing, Elements, Chance

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• If anybody knows how to make action movies it's Sly.

  Jason Statham

  Action, Sly, Know How

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir.

  Olivier Megaton

  Fans, Watches, Cinema

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• I never think I'm capable of any of [action movies]! I'm always terrified, but luckily on this one it was directed by my husband [Len Wiseman]. 'I can't possibly do it. I'm too scared, I can't do it.' He says: 'Go on. DO it!' So it is shocking as I'm not one of those people who finds that stuff easy.

  Colin Farrell

  Husband, Thinking, People

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• [On performing in action movies] I've spent all those years learning how to do certain skills, and then that competitive spirit kicks in and you want to do the stunts. Basically, it's the the male competitive ego at work.

  Jason Statham

  Years, Skills, Ego

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

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• I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

  Katee Sackhoff

  Fiction, Action, Grew Up

  Source: collider.com

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• I love everything. I don't see myself doing a really serious drama in the next five to ten years. I don't feel mature enough for that yet. But I'd like to make a pure action movie one day or maybe I can do a comedy again. I do like everything. But I don't feel ready for a musical or something like that. That's not my thing yet.

  Tommy Wirkola

  Drama, Years, Musical

  Source: collider.com

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• At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

  Doug Liman

  Smart, Successful, The End Of The Day

  Source: collider.com

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• There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Moving, Trying, Movement

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

  James Wan

  Swimming, Aquariums, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes there are people who don't know how to make action movies - and that situation isn't a good one.

  Jason Statham

  People, Action, Sometimes

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

  Doug Liman

  New York, Cities, People

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• It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

  John Leguizamo

  Differences, Different, Body

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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