Thomas Howes Quotes

There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.

I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it's that much cooler. I'll do anything the production safety people will let me.

You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall.

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

I'll make every movement as mine, and use stuntmen as less as possible.

I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can't really kill someone, and you don't want to really hurt them.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

I love action, so I would really love to get into doing more action movies.

I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.

I love doing all of my own stunts. Anything. Even if they are telling me, 'No, no, no! You can't do that!' I'll do it. Like crashing my car through the gate, climbing up the building, kicking in a window... I love doing all of that stuff.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

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 don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

You cannot expect to make an action movie without getting bruises.

When a lot of people watch these Victorian-era shows, they're in love with the costumes, the romance, the whole sweep of it all. But there is nothing nostalgic about 'The Knick' at all.