Scott Adkins Quotes

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

Most screen violence is tedious.

I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them boring.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or fighting, but my dad would say, 'Come on, think about it.' He'd choose more involving films like 'Pulp Fiction,' and at the end of the night, we'd agree that they were great.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

I've been watching things like 'Master of the Flying Guillotine' since I was 5.

A movie can be plain and simple, but if there's a lot of action, I enjoy them.

I just love action movies. People are like, 'What comedy movies did you grow up watching?' And I'm like, 'Not many.'

They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are killed and then there's no pain.

For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.

I get bored watching action movies.

I like Jason Statham movies, like 'The Transporter' or whatever. I watch them all the time when they come on TV. Then I saw 'Crank,' and I couldn't believe how awesome it was.

I like action movies, and I prefer to watch a bad Hong Kong action movie to just about anything else.

My first movie was 'The Mask Of Zorro,' and that was all swords and horses and swashbuckling, and I thought, 'This is what movies are.' Obviously, I never made another one like that again; those are very rare.

I like stuff like 'Top Gun.' I like horror films. I love them.

My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was younger, I hated action movies and pretty much anything loud. So when she put it on, I covered my ears and ran out of the room.

I like being outdoors. I like action films.