Quotes About Stunts

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

There's something that feels more organic about watching a stunt that's done by you. There's also a feeling of accomplishment doing it yourself.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.

But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.

With stunt guys, you can punch them in the face because it's, you know, just part of work. You feel bad about that but not as bad as if you punch another actor.

The vehicle-stunt world is so specialized. But when you spend so long in it as a stunt coordinator, you're exposed to all the disciplines, so it's always fun to combine the two ideas - a car chase and a fight scene - and make something more dynamic.

Before becoming an action director in 1990, my father was a stunt man for about 8 years. During that time, he was body double to many actors in that era, one of them being Sanjay Dutt.

There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

It's all choreographed; it's a routine. So I told everyone I really wanted to try fighting in action films. I had no stunt experience, but I had the dance background, and I was very agile and coordinated. And the best thing about being a newcomer to acting is you can afford to try new things.

I grew up in the late '70s. We played outside all day. I think that's where I got the whole notion of being an actor, you know, stunt fighting with my friends.

Stunt people are amazing at what they do, but they're not actors.

I'm the one that brought airbags into the stunt world.

I definitely dabbled and had done a number of stunt jobs in which I was doing fighting.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

I do all my own stunts!

Think about doing a bunch of stunts in leather. What does leather do? It doesn't stretch, it rips.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.

I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.

Out of a year, a half-dozen stunts are pretty tough. The rest are kinda routine. To go out and slide cars around and lay a motorcycle down hell, you do that without even thinking. But on the tough things, you put an awful lot of planning into it.

I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing.