Action Quote by Jonas Akerlund

When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's…

— Rob Marshall

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go…

— Rob Marshall

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

— Jason Statham

I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not…

— Ewan McGregor

They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all…

— Helen Mirren

I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker.

— Drew McWeeny

Although shooting action-packed movies is a physically hard job and I repeat movements over and over, those action scenes alone, regardless of rest of…

— Hyun Bin

I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the…

— Jose Padilha

I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

— Tania Raymonde

I've directed bits of action and so I know that it's long and it's very detailed. Editing action is a good deal more exciting…

— Sam Mendes

Directing action scenes is really just pure visual storytelling that just makes sense to me pretty intuitively.

— Hiro Murai

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