For whatever reason, I think we have one type of animated movie and it’s so wrong. I want to do a drama, I want to do an action, a comedy. In live-action, there are all sorts of movies. There’s independent movies, big movies, action movies, funny movies, and for us we have one movie.
I haven’t done a lot of action movies, so it’s kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.
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!
Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it’s what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith’s company has called ‘Paper Wings.’
I’ve always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film.
I like action movies, and I prefer to watch a bad Hong Kong action movie to just about anything else.
There are a lot of action movies with very little comedy.
I don’t do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.
I just want to make a few action movies.
I’m a fan of action movies.
A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
I’ve always wanted to do action movies.
I love watching action movies. I love 007.
I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy… I wanna scare people.
I’d love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola – all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.
Bollywood is the biggest driving force and action movies are the people’s number one choice.
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.
From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.
I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like ‘Lethal Weapon.’
I think I want to produce action movies.
‘Immortals’ is all action. I love action movies. That’s really where I want to spearhead my career.
Live action movies are someone else’s story. With animation, audiences can’t think that. Their guards are down.
My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action movies at 64 years old. He’s my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He’s one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there’s a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you’ve lost human scale.
I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.
I wasn’t one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like ‘Die Hard,’ ‘Predator,’ ‘Aliens,’ ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’
I mostly get bored by comedies, action movies, science fiction movies – they are so predictable.
I grew up on action movies. I love the James Bond and Jason Bourne movies.
There’s an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.
I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!
I think there’s certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies.
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
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