Geoff Dyer Quotes

I love thrillers, and I always have.

Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema?

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

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

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

I've always loved the Bond films.

I think about 'The Hurt Locker,' and we made a film about three guys, three different looking guys with three very different energies.

You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.

I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.

There's something that's very human about 'Warriorv that brings you out. You're watching the movie and, yeah, there's fighting - there's a tournament at the end of the movie - but it takes a long time to get to know these people.

I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it, and I'd love to do more of it. I want to do action films. I want to go and hang off of wires, and jump off of bridges, and hang on bungee cords. I've always really loved it.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

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.

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'

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

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.'

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

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

The 'Bourne' films totally reimagined and elevated the action genre.

It's always been the genres that fascinated me. I think great action movies and great thrillers are transformative.

Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I've watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they're all creative.

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