Action Quote by Rob Marshall

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

— Jonas Akerlund

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

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all…

— Pina Bausch

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their…

— Donnie Yen

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

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body,…

— Donnie Yen

For me, choreography is a process of physical thinking. It's very much in mind as well as in body.

— Wayne McGregor

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

Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or…

— Benjamin Bratt

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

— George Balanchine

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs…

— Donnie Yen

Intimate scenes are like dance rehearsals - it's all choreography.

— Rege-Jean Page