Action Quote by Ray Harryhausen

If there is an action scene, I want to do everything myself.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

If you know how to shoot a scene, then you know how to shoot an action scene. If you've seen an action movie, and…

— Jonathan Levine

I'm surrounded by a lot of live-action movie professionals, and I'm just taking their lead, as far as what to schedule to do next.…

— Chris Wedge

That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case we'd go…

— Jonathan M. Goldstein

When you do an action movie, you've got to come prepared to do an action movie.

— Columbus Short

I get really involved with my choreography team and my stunt guys so I know what the process is for what they're doing, so…

— Gareth Evans

You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn…

— Finn Wittrock

If I really feel that I want to shoot live people and live backgrounds, then that movie will become live-action. If I don't have…

— Mamoru Oshii

I have such a strong acting background because I know what I'm looking for, I know what the needs are, and I know acting…

— Charles Martin Smith

I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them when I…

— David Leitch

The way I work is, I always compose a shot list before I talk to anybody, including my DP. So I'll spend a couple…

— Ari Aster

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

— Aaliyah