Going to UCLA, as far as I'm concerned, afforded me two things. One was the advantage of meeting friends and getting to… — 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… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
When you are making a lot of money people forget you are trying to be creative and they picture you laughing all… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
It really started after The Long Kiss Goodnight sold for just a sinful amount of money. People were angry that I took… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I had my group of friends, and they stayed my group of friends, they were good about that. We all started to… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
People would say, "Well yeah, if I wrote action films, if I wrote the trash that you write, I could make millions… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people - by the time I came back with a script I liked, which took me many… — 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 wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
You have to be in California in order to write or direct movies. People say, "Oh, I'm gonna do it from Pittsburgh.… — 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
