An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
If someone fires a gun in a movie, it should always be a big deal. I don't like movies where someone shoots… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks. — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way,… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I try to make all the action in my movies subjective: to give a sense of what it would feel like to… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box.… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
For me, the stamp that I impose on stuff comes from the fact that in the '80s, when I was starting to… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie. — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I think it's an obligation to make a movie full, so you have to see it twice to get all the moments. — Shane Black Copy Share Image
The other thing being at UCLA was just being in California and around the movie business. Which I honestly believe, and I've… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of… — 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
