Graham Moore Quotes

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

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.

With Jerry Bruckheimer, you know you'll get your money's worth. You're getting huge action sequences, it's going to be funny, and you know it's going to look great.

I'm a Michael Bay fanatic.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.

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

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 really like big swashbuckling superhero films, but I feel like that Marvel universe is not adult enough.

I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies.

The thing with the Bourne movies is that they're so big in scope and the production value is so high and it takes so much organization.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.

It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!'

I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies.

I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

'Heroes' was a huge show with 12 cast members and giant special effects.

A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

'X-Men' films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.

The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it's about things getting blown up. It's not about great character development.

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.