Richard Roeper Quotes

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

I've never done an action show, really. On 'Jericho,' other people got to ride horses and shoot guns, but I never did.

The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

'Die Hard' was a really awesome experience, but I was too young to understand what a big film it was.

I'ma call my guns jumpers, cause my bullets just leapin to 'em.

I want to do an action movie so badly, it just has to happen at some point in my career. I have to do an action movie. Like, I want to do the Angelina Jolie thing - the guns and the blowing things up.

We just kind of wanted to play with these iconic moments of action. There's a really small one that always makes me laugh really hard, where there's a big shootout at the end, and the moment my gun runs out of bullets, I turn and there's just another gun sitting there, and I'm, like, oh, nice.

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.

As a second unit director, you're entrusted to shoot the action sequences. On every movie, it's slightly different.

Justin Lin has just been exceptional with what he does with that vehicular action.

The script for 'Drive Angry' is a great read with great characters and great action.

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

Germans aren't action fans. The only kind of action that really works is 'Bond.'

Anytime you get action legends together, it has to be a classic.

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

The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.

I just watched 'Lethal Weapon' for the first time, and it's awesome... and so violent! Mel is out of his mind in that movie. Although now we know he's just insane - he was very much in his mind.

As for the best '80s action movie, I'm going to be predictable here and say 'Die Hard.' I watch that movie at least twice a year. Perfect script.

The only reason I was offered 'Punisher' was because I had made an indie film that was rated R for violence and was filled with fight scenes.

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

Me and my comedy writer friends talk a lot about how we love 'Die Hard,' but we'll never be able to write 'Die Hard.'

No one rocks a heavy machine gun like Michelle Rodriguez.

Working on 'X Men,' I got to do a lot of flying and fighting, which was good fun.

'Boss' is a big scale entertainer... It is my first film of this kind.