Once you've got a concept and a sense of themes and what it's about, then you can start to add your plot and sort of Tetris in all of the elements that you want to see, but also attach them… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Going to UCLA, as far as I'm concerned, afforded me two things. One was the advantage of meeting friends and getting to know a… — Shane Black Copy Share
The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics. — Shane Black Copy Share
Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard… — Shane Black Copy Share
I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you… — Shane Black Copy Share
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles. — Shane Black Copy Share
I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession. — Shane Black Copy Share
The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats,… — Shane Black Copy Share
I'm the kid in school who always, you know, got the straight A's. I got to be that, you know, alpha aggressive work-ethic guy.… — Shane Black Copy Share
I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so lonely being… — Shane Black Copy Share
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a… — Shane Black Copy Share
Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then… — Shane Black Copy Share
When you are making a lot of money people forget you are trying to be creative and they picture you laughing all the way… — Shane Black Copy Share
An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a… — Shane Black Copy Share
