Steven Soderbergh Quotes

For a lot of explosions and stuff like that [in Transformers] you're harnessed to something getting swung in the air or dragged onto something or thrown onto something.

There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can't really kill someone, and you don't want to really hurt them.

As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.

I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.

I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

When you do an action movie, you've got to come prepared to do an action movie.

In an action film, you think of things that are almost impossible to do and yet you have to manage to show them as being possible on film.

I'll make every movement as mine, and use stuntmen as less as possible.

I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

I worked as a stuntman on the 'Star Trek' TV series pilot.

Having been a stunt girl for so long, a big part of my job, when being a stunt double, was to not just make the other person look as cool as they could, but also to act as support.

Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.

I prefer to work the old-fashioned way. I trie to do everything or most of his action sequences practically, because I feel that while added effects or the VFX process allows for flashier sequences, I feel that it lacks the energy we see in practical effects.

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

Justin Lin has just been exceptional with what he does with that vehicular action.

I love big popcorn movies.

In the stunt world, fights and vehicles are often two different disciplines.

Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.

I couldn't do what I did in 'Deadpool' without 'Transporter,' categorically.

I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.