“A talking monkey, yeah, yeah. Came here from the future. Ugly sucker. Only says 'ficus.” — 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
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
The Nice Guys movie was the first time in my career where what I wrote on the pages is on the screen.… — 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
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
