Shane Black Quotes

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• 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 to…
• You have to keep surprising your audience.
• Directing comes closer than anything I’ve found yet to providing me with a good reason to get up in the morning that goes beyond just…
• I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like…
• I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw…
• 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…
• Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.
• For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
• I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in…
• I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity…
• I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.
• I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.
• I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.
• I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.
• I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.
• Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
• An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony…
• An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual…
• I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an…
• I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think…

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