Elvis Mitchell Quotes

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

The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.

As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

A good choreographer is one that's going to collaborate, teach, guide - everything. The wonderful thing on 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' was that we had Philip Kwok - he choreographed John Woo's 'Hard Boiled,' and in the '70s, he was a martial arts actor, stunt man, fighter, choreographer in Hong Kong.

'Vikings' is a very physical, tough show. If you see battle scenes, it's us doing it. There are so many similar physical elements to WWE.

I've never done an action show, really. On 'Jericho,' other people got to ride horses and shoot guns, but I never did.

In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

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

The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.

I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.

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.

'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.

We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.

Anytime you get action legends together, it has to be a classic.

When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

From my childhood, I have watched a lot of action films, and I am a big fan of Jackie Chan.

Doing fight scenes in movies is a lot different than in WWE, but it was still relatively easy.