Best quotes by Shane Black on Action

Checkout quotes by Shane Black on Action

• ‟ An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.

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• ‟ An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

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• ‟ Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

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• ‟ 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, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.

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• ‟ I try to make all the action in my movies subjective: to give a sense of what it would feel like to actually be a part of it.

  - Shane Black