Edgar Ramirez Quotes

I really like action-dramas like 'The Professional' or 'La Femme Nikita.' I'd really like to be in a movie like that.

That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

I'm a massive fan of the 'Bourne' franchise, and I think Damon's brilliant in it, and I love the films. I'm really into it.

Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'

So, yes, 'Codename Baboushka' is all-action and over-the-top, at least by my standards. But it also has a complex, multifaceted protagonist, a deep mystery at its core, and a kind of humanity that, through all the bullets and high-kicks, is really the soul of the book.

As for action, yes 'Wanted' was a success in the action genre. But not to the extent of 'Dabangg.'

I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great.

When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical.

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'

'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

I love the movie 'Taken,' but the dialogue in the beginning of that movie is hilarious. They're talking, these commando types, and there's dialogue like, 'Hopefully your daughter appreciates what you're doing for her. Does she know that you're doing it?' What guys talk like this?

It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It's way too complicated, but it worked.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'

I binge-watched this show 'Damages.' Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors, and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that.

I'm into zombie movies like 'World War Z' and the shows 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Walking Dead.'

The 'Bourne' films totally reimagined and elevated the action genre.

When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.

'Eastern Promises' is great.

I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.

I would love to do another 'Jack Reacher' movie.

One of the things that makes the Bourne movies so exciting, I think, is you do get to go on a journey. Generally, through the franchise, that journey is in Europe.

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