Top 1200 Action Films Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I love action films, and to be able to put together 'Silver Hawk' was so exciting.

I'd love to do action-y types of films; you know, as long as they're good stories.

Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.

I'm such an action movie junkie that as an action fan, because action scenes are so heightened, we could never really picture ourselves in that scene. So when you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium: you know you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there.

For me, the stamp that I impose on stuff comes from the fact that in the '80s, when I was starting to write movies, I looked back to the '70s. So the films I enjoyed as a kid were the thrillers that came out of the '70s. Back then, you didn't have action movies; you had adventure films or thrillers.

I love action films. It's my favorite genre.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. But if you go to foreign films, if you go to documentaries, if you go to independent films, if you go to good films, you will become a better person because you will understand human nature better. Movies record human nature in a better way than any other art form, that's for sure.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

From my childhood, I have watched a lot of action films, and I am a big fan of Jackie Chan.

That's a genre that we haven't seen much of for a while. Those action-adventure-comedy, but yet intellectual films.

I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl.

I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind of fast-forward through the dialogue scenes. I'm not interested in doing that. Give me a reason to fight, and I'll go there. But don't just make it, 'You touched my pen! Haaa-yah!' I've done that before.

Everybody tells me to only do action films, but I would love to do horror, too.

[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction or what appears to be nonaction. That's a hard concept for Western audiences. . . . We wanted to show a kind of moral action, a spiritual action, an emotional action. Some people will pick up on it; some won't.

The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.

Everybody wants me to do action kind of films. It is OK.

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte.

In my earlier films, there was lots of song, dance and action. But now, I believe the story and script is more important.

Some filmmakers are more eclectic than others. I'm not one of those! I'm interested in what I'm interested in, which is films about the world, about what's going on. I started in TV documentaries with 'World in Action,' and those interests feed into the films I make now.

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action and then action itself... because prayers can only be answered through action and if someone's action is wrong, God can use that method of showing the pathway which is right.

I came into films when there was action. When I retired, it was romantic period.

I am a big fan of sleek action films.

I'm not really the kind of girl that goes for action films.

I'll watch anything, from action to art films.

I personally am more interested in romantic films and don't like a lot of action.

The 'Bourne' films totally reimagined and elevated the action genre.

I believe in films that have logic behind every emotion or action.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

I think action films are a huge draw in places like Bihar.

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

I've done action, songs, and dance in most of my films down South.

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.

My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulder.

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

'Death Sentence' really is a throwback to the '70s style revenge drama with moments of action. It's like a contemporary 'Death Wish' with a much more thriller style storyline, but the action scenes I shot very much in the style of '70s films like 'The French Connection.'

In the '80s, when I was watching Bond films in the cinemas, Roger Moore was the man. I'll always have a soft spot for him. His Bond films were light-hearted and silly as well as action-packed. For me, this spoke volumes. It meant that, someday, maybe someone like me with a whacky sense of humour could be James Bond.

I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're here, faith... all of these bigger questions that I think we can place in films that allow us to question and give us a safe place to feel. Those types of questions can pop up in all sorts of different types of films - drama, comedy, action movie.

I wanted to do action, and it was a bit irritating when people called me a chocolate boy. I can do other films, too.

I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

I love action films. I don't really like drama.

I grew up on R-rated action films, and you didn't blink.

If you see a bad live action film, what are the conclusions you draw? Typically, it is that they made a bunch of mistakes, a bad script, wrong casting. You get into 2D, and you get a few films that are not strong films. And what is the conclusion? That it's 2D? I beg to differ. It's a convenient excuse, but it's just wrong.

I have done some 104 films across languages, most of which had action.

I am not considering shifting my image from action to comedy or romantic comedy. I have done or am doing films which are action-oriented: comedy roles and romantic-comedy roles.

Tokyo is wonderful for distribution of international films, a lot of Iranian films, Taiwanese films. But most of the art films are from Europe and Asia.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

I had my boundaries and restrictions of doing films so I stopped working in the eighties. This was an era when films were more action oriented. Most of the characters cast in the pivotal roles were either daakus or police inspectors. My face suits neither of these characters. I cannot look like a daaku, so acting had taken a back seat.

Films have been my only passion in life. I have always been proud of making films and will continue taking pride in all my films. I have never made a movie I have not believed in. However, though I love all my films, one tends to get attached to films that do well. But I do not have any regrets about making films that did not really do well at the box office.

I am a big fan of action films and I want to make one in this genre.

We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.

I have never considered doing action films.

Though not into films, my family was associated with films. My grandparents financed films. They didn't like me getting into films. But, destiny willed it so.

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man.