Action Quote by Sam Mendes

I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really…

— Vincent Cassel

Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous…

— Christopher Nolan

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

— Garry Marshall

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

— Christopher McQuarrie

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

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

— Jonas Akerlund

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

Telling the story with only a few shots, I love that style. It makes you feel like you're part of the action, part of…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I think I was never home when I was directing, because you're either prepping, shooting, or editing, and then acting at the same time.…

— Miguel Ferrer

Because of the way that I work with the actors and because a scene is not in this rigid and literal interpretation of something…

— Mike Leigh

A lot of it is found in the editing room and part of that is due to some of the improvisational tactics we employ…

— Mark Duplass

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