Michael Moore Quotes

I like a good suspense thriller when it's smart and well done like 'Armed Response' is.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

To be running away from explosions with Harrison Ford, you know, that's pretty great.

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.

I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.

When you get a job on 'The Walking Dead' you imagine you're going to be running through the woods with a lot of weaponry shouting, 'Look out!'

I always love to do my own stunts when they let me, right?

I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

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.

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

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.

I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

As a second unit director, you're entrusted to shoot the action sequences. On every movie, it's slightly different.

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

I'm such an action movie junkie that as an action fan, because action scenes are so heightened, we could never really picture ourselves in that scene. So when you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium: you know you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there.

The script for 'Drive Angry' is a great read with great characters and great action.

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

A movie like 'Edge of Tomorrow' is so huge and complex - the spectacle and action is all-consuming - and that on its own is enough of a reason for a lot of people to see it.

Puerto Rico is beautiful. I mean, I love it. But it's hard to film here. It's hard to film an action movie here where you're outside, and you're running around all day.

Anytime you get action legends together, it has to be a classic.

I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!

The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.