David R. Ellis Quotes

I love doing films, action films, anything I can get into that is produced at a high level, really use my skills.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

I feel 'Breaking Bad' - maybe everybody says this about their show - I feel like this show is so special that I don't 'know' that I necessarily really know what it's like to do a regular show.

I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'

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 remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

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

I really enjoy working in television and the evolution of a character over time.

I think you can achieve things in television that you can't achieve on film, and I think we managed to do a lot of that in the first season of 'Lost.'

I've done all sorts of different kinds of action. We did a thing in 'Blood Diamond,' the attack on Freetown, where I carefully staged the action but did not show the camera operators what we were going to film - so it has the feel of documentary, trying to capture something, and that gave it a whole different feel.

I couldn't do what I did in 'Deadpool' without 'Transporter,' categorically.

I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

My focus is films, and 'Angela's Eyes' is one of those TV projects that has some good TV concepts behind it and good writing.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.