Julian McMahon Quotes

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.

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

I did do my own stunts.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

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

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

As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.

We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

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 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.

Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.

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

In an action film, you think of things that are almost impossible to do and yet you have to manage to show them as being possible on film.

'Phantom Menace' was a huge project. It was the biggest visual effects production ever done at that point, and it was a little scary how big it was and how many unknown technologies had to be developed to do that work.

To do a train wreck and make it look real on screen is tremendously skilful.

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 loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved.

Having been a stunt girl for so long, a big part of my job, when being a stunt double, was to not just make the other person look as cool as they could, but also to act as support.

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

I love getting to work with the stunt coordinator. It's like choreography, like a dance.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.