“An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.” KindActionMovingDirectorsCamerasChoreographersCinematographers Author:Donnie Yen
“You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.” IfsLooksMayI CanCharacterStoriesAbleActionAudienceDesignCamerasStorytelling Author:Tom Cruise
“Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous or more tired. When you do a movie, you have action, you're talking, you're moving. You don't see the camera. Taking a picture with a photographer, you don't talk, it's more difficult than in a movie for your body to relax, to be yourself.” PeopleBodyActionFacesMovingDifficultInterestingTalkingCamerasTiredPhotographerYour BodyNervousBeing YourselfRelax Author:Keira Knightley
“I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.” WayHelpingActionSpeakAudienceCamerasScreensI RealizedIntimateSeatsHelp MeDrivers Author:James Wan
“Everybody is talking and everybody is trying to block things out, but eventually you just yell, "Action!," everybody starts moving, the camera starts going, and you get a take.” TryingActionMovingTalkingCamerasBlock Author:Craig Gillespie
“But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the scene or the sequence and that would inspire the actors. Of course, I can't really express emotions on camera, but I was very active in showing a certain action or a blocking for an actor. I would also participate in certain stunts myself and because of that, I would get bruises or cuts on my knees and elbows.” I CanMomentsActionCertainCoursesActorsEmotionCuttingInspireScenePerformancesCamerasActiveBlockKneesSequenceNuanceElbowsBruises Author:Kim Jee-woon
“Often, people ask if it's different doing live-action and voice-over, but the only thing that's different, really, is that we're in a booth and there's no camera on me. But, my intention, as an actor, is exactly the same.” PeopleIfsDifferentActionActorsAsksVoiceCamerasIntentionVoice Over Author:Emmanuelle Chriqui
“Death Race was a very modern action movie and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts. In 3D, I didn't want to do that anymore.” WantHandsActionUsedRaceCuttingModernMovementCamerasTechniqueAction MovieZoomDeath Race Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“And also, I'm most comfortable with like two people just sitting and talking about their feeling, you know, in a room with like two cameras and that's it. And I wanted to do something where there was like action and running and you know crowd scenes and big set pieces and certainly did a lot of that, so yeah.” PeopleKnowsTwoFeelingsBigsRunningActionWantedRoomsTalkingPiecesSceneComfortableSittingCamerasYeahCrowds Author:Nicholas Stoller
“If I'm shooting actually a live-action movie and I feel like I can get the shots that I need with the existing 3D cameras, then I see there is no reason to not use those-to not shoot it in 3D. But there are limitations to the 3D cameras in terms of the amount of them, in terms of the size of them, in terms of where you can actually shoot them. There are definitely limitations so you have to weigh the costs. And you have to weigh also what ultimately what creatively you want to get.” IfsWantNeedsFeelsI CanReasonUseActionTermAmountCostShotsCamerasSizeLimitationShootingNo ReasonAction Movie Author:Neal H. Moritz
“That shot in "Into the Inferno" somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, "That looks like the opening shot because the camera approaches the action very slowly and we have enough time to insert some of the main credits into it." So it was a practical choice. At the same time, you see these tiny figures standing at the rim of something, and all of a sudden, the camera rises further and you find yourself looking straight down into an inferno.” LooksSaidEnoughActionChoicesFiguresApproachShotsStandingCamerasCreditTinyPracticalsOpeningFinding YourselfEditorsEnough TimeInfernoRimsInsert Author:Werner Herzog
“I'm passionate about capturing amazing snowboarding action. I get so much out of the artistic endeavor of even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment, using specialist cameras to showcase how fun and dynamic snowboarding is. That's what I live for.” ActionFunEnvironmentShotsCamerasPassionateArtisticEndeavorSpecialistsSnowboardingPristineShowcase Author:Travis Rice
“Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.” WritingDoeCharacterActionFilmSceneDirectorsCamerasScriptsManageParticipantsProtagonistsMain CharactersFilm DirectorsGonzo Journalism Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.” FeelsArtActionTeamEffectsDirectorsCamerasDecadesCraftsChoreographyHong KongCinematicChoreographers Author:Donnie Yen
“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.” PeopleWayDoeFeelingsBigsLightSeemsHappensActionProcessOur LivesEventsMinesGoes OnFitFlowCamerasSoldierTraumaNarrativePlotSteadyLife Goes OnBig Events Author:Jessica Stern
“But between the images, we are privy to the real-life action being played out on the set. Peeta's attempt to continue speaking. The camera knocked down to record the white tiled floor. The scuffle of boots. The impact of the blow that's inseparable from Peeta's cry of pain. And his blood as it splatters the tiles.” RealActionPainWhiteRecordsBloodCryCamerasImpactBlowReal LifeBootsInseparablePeetaKnocked DownBeing PlayedTiles Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because unless you're doing a voiceover, which is tremendously clumsy, you can't hear the ideas of characters. For that, we depend on subtle clues that the directors put in and that the actors supply. I can actually write, "'Yes you can trust me,' he lied." [But it's better to get inside the characters' heads.]” ThinkingWritingPersonsI CanIdeasCharacterActionActorsWrittenDependsDirectorsThirdsCamerasTechniqueObjectivesSubtleClueTrust MeLiedViewpointsClumsyCinematicThird PersonYes You CanHe LiedYou Can Trust Me Author:George R. R. Martin
“It's easier to do an action scene than a love scene. I love fighting. When the camera's not rolling, I'll usually punch some of the actors, just for fun.” ActionFightingActorsFunEasierSceneCamerasRollingJust For Fun Author:Jessica Chastain