Valerie Plame Quotes

In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

I mean, I love action films, you know, good action films.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.

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.

I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.

I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

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

For me, to get to play an action hero in a science fiction film is a marriage of two genres that I'm a huge fan of.

I love big popcorn movies.

I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.

I love 'Lost' and 'Mission: Impossible III.'

I get bored watching action movies.

Frankly, you cannot match the action in a Bond or a Bourne film. Forget budgets, it needs an expertise which I probably lacked.

I would love to do a period film, a sports film, or an out and out action movie.