Steve Coogan Quotes

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

For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.

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

I love doing stunts. It's so much fun.

I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that.

For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

I had so much fun working with Akshay, especially in the action scenes.

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

I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.

I like doing this stuff [stunts] though, it's kind of the whole reason that you want to do the movie. When you're reading it you're like, "Oh, I get to dive out a window? Cool! I get to jump off a building? Great!" So I love doing that stuff, it's like the stuff we used to do in high school to be stupid and fun.

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

While filming 'The Matrix,' we studied how a Chinese fight-choreography team trains actors before production starts so that they can participate in action sequences in a more dynamic way.

I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it's that much cooler. I'll do anything the production safety people will let me.

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.

So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys.

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

I would like to be able to do as many of my own stunts where I can.

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.