Choreography Quote by David Leitch

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.

— Brian Michael Bendis

Fight scenes are like learning a dance. You learn it move by move, and then you put it all together and it looks awesome…

— Rachel Nichols

I'd never really shot action scenes before, but I realized early on that is very much like shooting choreography and dance.

— Jonas Akerlund

It's like a dance, to choreograph a fight is like a dance. It's very specific. You have to carefully plan it out. Because if…

— Bryan Cranston

Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved.

— David Leitch

When I go to throw a punch, actually, my intention is to hit somebody. That's just second nature to me. So you have to…

— Rich Franklin

Generally, when you prepare for a fight scene, you have a day before, where you're going through hours of choreography and getting comfortable with…

— Aidan Gallagher

Fight scenes are really more like dances than they are fights, because you're depending on your partner to do the right move at the…

— James Franco

You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight…

— Paul Bettany

I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a…

— Dana Carvey

When preparing for the fight choreography, the first thing I have to think about is what fits in the script. Whatever goes along with…

— Yuen Woo-ping

I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt