All Shane Black Quotes
- 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… Broken
- You have to keep surprising your audience. 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… All
- 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… Afraid
- 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… Audience
- 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… Act
- Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie. Action
- For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles. All
- 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… Action
- 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… Act
- I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made. Action
- 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. All
- I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit. Cape
- I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks. Able
- I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money. Down
- Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain. Job
- 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… Action
- 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… Action
- 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… Audience
- 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… Ashamed
- Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I… Action
- Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly… Album
- 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, like… Action
- If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all… All
- You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied… Altered