Writer Quotes by Shane Black

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

The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.

— Shane Black

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

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

You have to keep surprising your audience.

— Shane Black

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

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

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

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

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

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

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