Bryan Konietzko Quotes

On 'Angel' I got to work a lot with Mike Massa, who was David Boreanaz' stunt double, and Mike would let me do most of my stuff by myself. I did almost all my fight scenes by myself.

I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

I found out I really love brutal fight scenes.

You don't often see fight scenes with people who have no idea how to fight.

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.

You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.

You always start a fight scene or an action scene with, 'What are we learning about this character at the moment, and how are we gonna arc him or her in the next three minutes,' and it's no different with 'Deadpool' or 'Atomic Blonde' or 'John Wick.'

The one thing I try to do is bring something to my fight scenes that no other film fighter could ever do.

I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!

Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.

Doing fight scenes in movies is a lot different than in WWE, but it was still relatively easy.

Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.

Everyone realizes when it comes to fight scenes, that's gonna be my wheelhouse.

I'm always excited to do the fight scenes.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

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

The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.

I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.

Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved.

I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.