Quotes About Action

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I can't change what casting directors do or what producers do. I can only change what I do.

Raze' is a horror/action film and they asked me to get involved when it was just in the developmental stage - they also brought be on board as one of the producers and that is really what drew me to it.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

If I allowed fear to dictate my life, I would not be productive.

I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well - the language of martial arts movie fighting. It's a different thing; it's a different kind of logic.

If you want change, and you want things to get better across the country, there's different ways to go about it.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

We need to have people who are talking about, 'Here's exactly what I would do differently.' That's what's important as we go vote.

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.

When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.

I love or hate things straight away. I like to go directly to action to see the result. I think I must be difficult, but at the same time, it's not for me to say.

I like to dirt bike ride, four wheeler, go-kart.

I love 'The Dirty Dozen.'

I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved.

I've got more bruises and scars on my legs than should be there. And I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all and get real down and dirty.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

I was so disappointed by the 2012 election that I decided I had to do something. And I thought, 'I have something to offer - I should be able to have a seat at the table.'