Jonathan Jackson Quotes

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

If you look at the great Westerns, and at Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology, they all contain elements in common: a harsh landscape; demons or outlaws trying to stop or kill the protagonist; and there are mythical legends at their core, innate in all cultures.

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress.

What's a hero if not for its journey.

I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.

Playing the greatest warrior in the seven kingdoms, that's absolutely no pressure.

Yeah, like '300,' I've probably watched it 300 times. It's one of my favourite films. I've just finished watching 'Spartacus,' another great series. I relate a lot to those kind of films. I think most fighters should relate to those films. It just seems natural. I am Spartacus, I am Leonidas, I am the lead role in those films.

I'm a real-life action hero.

I wanted to be like the heroes of the books I read. That's why I wanted to go to the jungle. I wasn't interested in danger from the adrenaline aspect, I was more interested in the romance.

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

It is a long story how we finally ended up with the title simply being 'The Legend of Korra,' but in a poetic way, I think Korra's big Type A personality willed it to happen!

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

If you want to be a hero, you've got to take hero shots.

The valley we lived in could easily be the setting for a fantasy novel or a prairie western novel. It could be anything.

In school, we learned about the Birkebeinerne as some of the bravest men. And these two guys saving the Norwegian king... There's a kind of mythology around it.

I love a great myth. I love a superhero origin story.

What works for me in 'Indiana Jones' is the fact that I can project myself onto the character. Maybe if I was cool enough, I could do what he does. But I can't do that if the story breaks the rules of reality in too large of a degree.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."