- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action Film Quotes
What makes an action film more than noise.
These quotes come from actors and viewers discussing what raises an action film above spectacle, including praise for stories with characters people genuinely care about. For more on the genre, see Action quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'
- Netflix
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church - especially with event screenings.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole idea of making 'James' was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and '80s.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at my career, I have already proved that after a big action film like 'Chatrapati,' I could do a cool film like 'Darling.'
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.
- Bruised
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
- Action Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie's 'Salt.'
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020