Chris Pine Quotes

Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.

Action movies haven't been encouraging in my case. Nevertheless, this is my favourite genre.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

I like action movies! Action movies are awesome.

I've always been attracted to action stuff.

I like high impact movies.

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

It gets a little crazy at Disneyland. It's a little bit more hardcore then people think.

When we made the original 'Dhoom,' we wanted to make a film that would not bore us and wanted it to be just a breezy cool film.

The thing about action films is that they are high on drama in terms of action sequences, have songs and other things, but content is secondary.

With 'Rachaa' I get back to action. It has very edgy action.

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite, paint over, and come back to it. In film, once you start shooting, you can't restart the clock, and you keep moving forward, and you don't look back, and you don't go back. And that is, of course, antithetical to the creative process. It's really hard to generate a comfortable creative flow under that kind of pressure.

If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

I like the mad and neurotic pace of television.

This sport's crazy.

I've always loved action stuff.

I've done a lot of ad films where an idea can be translated in 30 or 40 seconds. But in a movie, an idea needs to be stretched for two hours, and requires you to draw a bit from your experiences in life.

I don't enjoy doing over-the-top action entertainers.

The pace is unbelievable in the Premier League.

I do a film only when I feel I will be comfortable with the set-up and other members of the team.

Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do.

I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it's great, too.

If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.