Jonathan Tropper Quotes

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.'

My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie.

I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an action movie. I'd never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.

Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I've watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they're all creative.

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

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

I was in 'Cliffhanger' years ago, so I'm a massive fan of the big event movies - the good ones - but there's a lot of crap that's made in between the good ones. It's just the superhuman films that I can't get my head around. I guess if you're a fan of them, then you love them.

I would say that my favorite action film is the 'Die Hard's. They're kind of perfect, I think.

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.

'Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.

I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

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.'

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

I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd love to take on Bond.

The whole idea of making 'James' was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and '80s.

I grew up on action movies. I love the James Bond and Jason Bourne movies.

Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.

My worst job ever, this was when I was a kid, was picking potatoes on the back of a trailer in March. It was freezing, absolutely freezing. We had to sort the good ones from the bad ones. Once you do that for a day in March in the north of England, it makes you think there must be better jobs than this!

Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.