Sammo Hung Quotes

On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Timing is a big part of stunt work and fighting scenes. It's something you learn in WWE, especially when they are really character-driven fights.

For me, my favorite scenes, when I'm in my comfort zone, are the fighting scenes Those are my favorite to do, so I'd love to have more of those.

To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

You always start a fight scene or an action scene with, 'What are we learning about this character at the moment, and how are we gonna arc him or her in the next three minutes,' and it's no different with 'Deadpool' or 'Atomic Blonde' or 'John Wick.'

In the stunt world, fights and vehicles are often two different disciplines.

Coming from an action background, I always approach the action sequences in any script as kind of placeholders.

I had done a lot of running in 'Texas Chainsaw' and sword-fighting in 'Percy Jackson,' which taught me to fall properly.

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.

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

A lot of times in television, it's incredibly rushed, and you're just trying to get the pace.

The one thing I try to do is bring something to my fight scenes that no other film fighter could ever do.

That's the thing about 'The Daily Show' - we're doing four shows a week, so we can't be too precious about what's going on.

I want to be able to do more of my own stunts and really be proficient with my weapons.

It's a very tricky job we have as DPs, where you are expected to make something that really is an emotional art but also needs to be technically spot on. You're often given a very small window of time to achieve it. People sometimes expect it to be even quicker and forget that there's a schedule for a reason.

Work wise, as a stunt woman, I enjoy telly - or TV - because - and, as an actor - I kind of enjoy the urgency of it. I enjoy the problem-solving that's happening. Right now, we don't have time to rehearse for hours. And, if something goes wrong, we don't have time to shoot something else for four days until we sort it out.

I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!

In our case, with 'Raze,' we had a really, really tight schedule. We shot something like 17 fights in three and a half weeks which is insane.

There's never enough time to shoot battle scenes or fight scenes. It always feels rushed. Anytime horses are involved, it eats up time like crazy.

I had so much fun working with Akshay, especially in the action scenes.

Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.

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