Action Quote by Lisa Joy

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

— Clive Owen

Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

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

— Nick Nolte

I think a lot of people have become quite disenfranchised with action films, especially when they hide the choreography with quick cuts and close-ups.

— Gareth Evans

In an action film, you think of things that are almost impossible to do and yet you have to manage to show them as…

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

I've been told that I'm a very different person on the set than I am in postproduction when the movie's over and I'm editing,…

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Lee Unkrich

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some…

— Harrison Ford

Everything today is such a massive visual show. It's very rare to get a film where the characters are raw and real - and…

— Wade Eastwood

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

— Jason Statham

They’re called action scenes because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes.

— Helen Mirren

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