Violante Placido Quotes

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.

'Mission: Impossible' is basically entertainment, and for what it is, it's fine. I don't think most actors become actors to do that type of film.

Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

I love action, so I would really love to get into doing more action movies.

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

I'm just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.

I'm of a generation of director that came up understanding special effects.

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

I graduated from public high school. I went to the prom. I did it all. But I also worked on 30-million dollar movies with roller coasters and Michelle Pfeiffer. It's been a very interesting and blessed life for sure.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

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.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

Hollywood's a big place, and they make all sorts of different movies. Some movies I'm attracted to; a lot of the movies I'm not. But there are some terrifically talented people over there that I'd love to work with.

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

I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies.

I don't think I am an action movie star now; I've just done a couple of action movies! I'm just so respectful of the people that have come before me and the hard work they've put in.

In Australia in the '70s, there was a real embrace of different genres. And then George Miller did 'Mad Max' by the end of the '70s, the beginning of the '80s. And it was really thriving.

I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"

Sometimes there are people who don't know how to make action movies - and that situation isn't a good one.

I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.