Action Movie Quotes - Page 4

• 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 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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• 3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning. So when I think of doing that I was very excited. It didn't go as far as I think it should, I'm still a novice, but I think it's fair to say it's a new cinematic medium, experience.

  Ang Lee

  Baby, Thinking, Steps

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

  Julian Jarrold

  Simple, Want, Pay

  Source: collider.com

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• I asked each if [Yao Xingtong and Zhang Lanxin] was afraid of heights. Each said no, and although they had never had the action movie experience they were willing to be trained. Then I asked if they could swim, and each said yes, but she (gestures toward YX) is better. She said, I can also dive, in fact I once won a diving championship in an international competition. Then she said, "But big brother, I'm not very strong," and I said that's all right.

  Jackie Chan

  Strong, Brother, Swim

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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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• 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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• If someone said, "Here, you have your pick, you can do either a musical, Moulin Rouge type of movie, where you sing and dance, or an action movie, or a Shakespearian or Elizabethan movie," I would definitely love to do a movie that was based on a musical, where I would get to sing, dance and act, all at the same time.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Musical, Action, Said

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Character, Ideas, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.

  Will Forte

  Stupid, Inspiration, Names

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• I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies.

  Walter Hill

  Hero, Thinking, Leaving

  Source: collider.com

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• Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

  Walter Hill

  Drama, Action, Situation

  Source: collider.com

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• Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

  Daniel Craig

  Trying, Stories, Action

  "Daniel Craig, Director Sam Mendes, and Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson Talk SKYFALL". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

  Robin Williams

  Jobs, Action, Great Job

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• The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.

  Corey Feldman

  Real, Hero, Kids

  "Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander Interview LOST BOYS: THE THIRST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2010.

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• To me, always just - that scene is, like, so convenient. They never run out of bullets in action movies, unless it's at the most dramatic time possible.

  Seth Rogen

  Running, Bullets, Action

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• The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Special, Important, Velcro

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• One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Character, White, Racism

  "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.

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• With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Forever, Doe, Shooting

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I am absolutely desperate to do an action movie. And not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but I actually think I'm good at it. I did it all. I was really into the routines and the choreography. I used to dance when I was younger, and so I think that came in handy.

  Lily James

  Thinking, Blow, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.

  Stephen Dorff

  Feelings, Action, Bad Actions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day.

  Wes Anderson

  Race, Sun, Action

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• For me, it's very important if I do action movies and I have a stunt person, to work with them. Not only by memorizing the choreography but also it's important to study that individual and it's imperative for that individual to study you because you're not playing two different people, you're playing the same person.

  Zoe Saldana

  Two, People, Important

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Any movie you see, if Tom Cruise is in an action movie or whatever it is, The Avengers, there's going to be a kick-ass female character. Usually one. And there's a term for this, but I don't know what it is. But someone's coined a term where there's one female character who's incredibly tough and strong and just as good as the guys at whatever it is they’re doing, and usually wearing black, skin-tight clothes, and [she] has no personality whatsoever, and is not funny.

  Geena Davis

  Strong, Character, Wearing Black

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

  Drew Barrymore

  Angel, Men, One Day

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