Action Quote by Christopher Meledandri

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

— Rachel Griffiths

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

— Jan de Bont

I think the story only really comes alive on the set.

— Mora Stephens

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what…

— Viggo Mortensen

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me…

— Eric Bana

You usually get a script and you tell people what the story's about, and they have no idea what's going on. Whereas with an…

— Emma Stone

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie…

— Jose Padilha

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

— Jack Valenti

The truth can be hard to take, but we have an obligation to look and see what's going on, and, if we don't like…

— Bill Maher

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

— Ray Harryhausen

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems…

— Alex Gansa

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that…

— Daniel Craig