Action Quote by Edwin Catmull

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

— Lee Unkrich

Live-action movies are all about looking as real as possible, making you believe, 'I really am on Mars,' or, 'I really am under the…

— Stephen Schwartz

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

— Nick Nolte

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

Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then…

— Pierce Brosnan

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

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns…

— Jet Li

Any good film you see gives you enough motivation and adrenaline rush to produce good content, while a bad film can get you so…

— Mani Ratnam

Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them…

— Sylvester Stallone

I strongly believe that besides having good action, action-oriented films need to have a good baseline for the script.

— Sajid Khan

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

— Sylvester Stallone

Sometimes there are people who don't know how to make action movies - and that situation isn't a good one.

— Jason Statham