Quotes About Action

I was doing stunts for money, not for fame.

I love performing stunts; the more dangerous they are, the more I am driven.

I realized being on the set that I love doing stunts and I love fighting and I love action, so it was really fun to shoot those scenes.

I felt like Lara Croft while doing stunts.

Fear makes you do stupid things.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

I like 'Zorro.' I like people you can believe that don't have those stupid powers. That is the beauty of Zorro. He's just a guy working for the people, to save the people.

That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away.

I know what people expect of me - to have the fighting style of going forward and having a lot of action.

With '30 Minutes or Less,' there was a conscious decision on my part to make it a little less stylized. I wanted it to feel like an '80s action movie.

Definitely it is difficult to maintain the Hollywood stylized action that we had in 'Kick.'

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

I try to make all the action in my movies subjective: to give a sense of what it would feel like to actually be a part of it.

That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.

Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction.

I love submarine movies.

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

We just don't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series led by a female character. It's kinda nonsense to us.

I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.