I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I start a new script I start picking through the pieces. Suddenly you get five pieces… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all undergo a common experience, and there is something at Christmas that unites everybody. It already… — 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 Image
The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics. — Shane Black Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
