There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.
Extraordinary situations require an out-of-box thinking. Conventionalists cannot find such solutions.
I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
The extraordinary's the norm.
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.
I remember leaving the first 'Matrix' movie feeling completely radicalized, completely changed. I think we all, from our ordinary lives, like to think about putting ourselves into these extraordinary situations and wonder how we'd respond.
One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.
I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.
The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.
My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
