Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Chad Stahelski

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Chad Stahelski is an American stuntman and film director. He is known for his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and directing the 2014 film John Wick and directing its three sequels. Stahelski also doubled for Brandon Lee after the fatal accident involving Lee on the set of The Crow (1994) and replaced Lee in the film. He has worked as a stunt coordinator and second unit director on several films.

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Say you can't put one foot in front of the other, you punch like a child, and you're not flexible at all. We'll show you some aikido, some ground jujitsu, some gun stuff, some knife moves. We can make a pretty good-size dent with that.

Chad Stahelski

I guess I have kind of a type. Pretty much anybody who shows up in a black leather overcoat, I've doubled for them.

Chad Stahelski

The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.

Chad Stahelski

If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room.

Chad Stahelski

For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.

Chad Stahelski

Production wants a miracle on every movie. They want us to do something new and amazing - but then they give you a 55-year-old actor with sciatica who doesn't want to train.

Chad Stahelski

I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.

Chad Stahelski

When I first met Laurence I was Keanu's [Reeves] stunt double on the first Matrix. So, a little evolution there with career status. But then cut to the thirteen/fourteen years later where now I'm asking Laurence Fishburne to trust my directorial capacity [in John Wick 2].

Chad Stahelski

Keanu and I were in New York, I was prepping John Wick 2. And when Keanu [Reeves], [writer] Derek Kolstad, and myself sat down and wrote the character, it was completely, one hundred percent based on Laurence Fishburne. Like, in my head I saw this guy.

Chad Stahelski

I think what we want to do is - when we choreograph, when we design choreography, we try to take it from a character standpoint first. Obviously you write a script and it's like, a Jason Bourne or a John Wick or something like that, you don't start choreographing double twisting wire moves and backflips, or doing the splits. You try to keep it so it fits the character, or the tone of the film.

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In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them.

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I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.

Chad Stahelski

I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.

Chad Stahelski

I spent a lot of time with both [Laurence Fishburn and Keanu Reeves], obviously, on the Matrix trilogy. Worked a lot, on a day-to-day level, with Laurence Fishburne. And then we'd bumped into each other through the film community for years and years.

Chad Stahelski

I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.

Chad Stahelski

Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.

Chad Stahelski

Laurence [Fishburn] helped redo some of the dialogue [in John Wick 2], he and Keanu [Reeves] workshopped it. And he couldn't have been more respectful couldn't have been more brilliant on set. I said, "look, I'm gonna have to work you a little bit here cause I only get you for three days." He never left set, was always engaging, always working on his lines, it was awesome.

Chad Stahelski

Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don't love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.

Chad Stahelski

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

Chad Stahelski

With John Wick we wanted to do something like that. So rather than punching, kicks - and for the kind of way we wanted to shoot it, which is longer takes - our initial instinct was let's go with a throwing or grappling arm.

Chad Stahelski

We're under Rigan Machado, who I think is one of the best jiu jitsu instructors at least in Los Angeles, if not in the world. We have a lot of his instructors here, as well as Japanese jiu jitsu, Japanese judo, and sambo. That was Keanu's [Reeves] recipe [in John Wick 2].

Chad Stahelski

Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Chad Stahelski

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