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I paid attention how to land a big shot, like Oscar De La Hoya with the left hook.

— Ryan Garcia

Shooting a fight is like shooting any other scene. You have to tell a story using a very specific choreography.

— David Leitch

To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.

— David Benioff

But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's…

— Luke Pasqualino

And so not only do you have to make that work, you can't really start putting the thing together in any form because some…

— Charlie Kaufman

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue…

— Bille August

On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot…

— Wes Anderson

Sometimes the scene just comes together, and other times, we have to build the scene from scratch, just using different takes.

— Drake Doremus

I generally make a point to finish my shot in the initial couple of takes with the goal that the execution would be genuine,…

— Sai Pallavi

When I was making films, we had a lot of time for the fighting scenes. But in TV, we don't have much time to…

— Sammo Hung

Doing fight scenes in movies is a lot different than in WWE, but it was still relatively easy.

— Seth Rollins

The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes.…

— Charlie Kaufman