Aisha Tyler Quotes

In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.

I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.

I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.

I like movies, action movies. I definitely would be an actor in Hollywood.

I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

I love action films. It's my favorite genre.

We haven't done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the '90s, but they failed.

John McTiernan, the director, is not Ingmar Bergman. He does action-adventure movies.

I love the action movies. I would love to be part of those.

I love James Cameron. I love what he does.

I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.

A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly.

Throughout the movies' golden age, the Western enriched Hollywood financially and artistically. But in the 1970s, the genre lost its audience appeal to fantasy films of the 'Star Wars' stripe, which told more or less the same story - elemental animosities leading to an armed showdown - but at a faster tempo, and in outer space.

I grew up on '80s action movies... Jean Claude Van Damme, Schwarzenegger, Stallone... If there were ever some opportunity to do that, it'd be great.

I just love action movies. People are like, 'What comedy movies did you grow up watching?' And I'm like, 'Not many.'

Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer.

I'd really like to do a movie, either as a producer or director. My ultimate fantasy would be to direct a movie and produce the entire soundtrack. I don't really see myself acting.

There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

When someone says 'comic book movies', what they inevitably mean is a summer superhero blockbuster, with heavily-muscled and tightly-gluted men (plus the occasional token woman) in tight-fitting costumes punching the living daylights out of one another for two hours.

Con Air' and all these movies were what made me want to get into film and if 'Crimson Tide' is on the television, that's me for the next two hours. I'm not leaving.

I would love to work on a film which would be close to Hollywood standards.