Adrien Brody Quotes

You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall.

There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

… a party of our men lying in wait for the Turks, fought a successful battle with them and killed sixty horsemen, whose heads they brought to the army.

I'll make every movement as mine, and use stuntmen as less as possible.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

War is the province of danger.

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

We’re not going to win this war through polling.

One makes mistakes in every war.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

The troops are at war, but the Pentagon is not.

I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.

Frankly, you cannot match the action in a Bond or a Bourne film. Forget budgets, it needs an expertise which I probably lacked.

When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.