Action Quote by Shane Black

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

— Nick Nolte

Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!

— Matthew Vaughn

Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key…

— Sylvester Stallone

The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats,…

— Shane Black

I think a lot of action films, and I'm just saying this as a moviegoer, the default setting on action films seems to be…

— Niki Caro

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 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

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

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

— Jason Statham

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that…

— Daniel Craig

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

When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind…

— Jerry Lewis