Shane Black Quotes

I love thrillers, and I always have.

My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' trilogy; she likes big blockbusters. She loved that I did 'I Am Legend.' My passion for acting came with my passion for movies.

I'd love to do action-y types of films; you know, as long as they're good stories.

I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies.

If you dissect my career as an actor, and you can pull out more than enough of those type of movies, from The Hurt Locker and The Town and so on and so forth, and that's kind of where our wheelhouse is. We love it.

My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.

I'm actually a very dark person, so I really want to get into some really dark roles, maybe some thrillers. I've never done one of those, so I think I'd really want to get into that, but definitely something that would get lots of people talking.

I dream big, baby. I want to do thrillers, I want to do smart David Lynch-type mysteries.

I'm not a fan of action movies.

I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

I love movies, of course. 'Terminator 3' and 'Bad Boys II' - lots of action. Sports movies, action movies, comedies - I'll go to those, but not 'las de amor.' Not romance. It's not that I don't like love, but on the screen it bores me.

I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

I loved the 'Die Hard' films growing up and the 'Taken' movies. They're so entertaining, and I enjoy being on the edge of my seat.

I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like that. But I'd also love to do a dramatic piece. It's really just whatever you read and take to.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I'm a fan of action movies.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.

'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'

I always wanted to do action-adventure, and science fiction genres were always something that were of great interest to me.

I do like a lot of the '70s movies. I love Charles Bronson in 'Hard Times.' All my favorite movies where ones from yesteryear. The '70s was a good era. I love all those.

I'm a child of that, the 'Bonnie and Clyde' to 'Raging Bull' period, you know. Those are the films that heightened my interest in acting and movies and everything.

It's always been the genres that fascinated me. I think great action movies and great thrillers are transformative.