“Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.” PersonsActionTurnsFoundReligiousWiseExpressionConsciousHollywoodStudiosRhythmTunesEcstasyQuarrelsTurn-onPropsWise Person Author:Timothy Leary
“Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!” KnowsWellsMeanStatesWholeMightActionUnitedUnited StatesEthicsGunHollywoodArmyMalesCampsBootsPortionsExplosionsAction MovieBoot CampUnited States Army Author:Nora Ephron
“Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.” GivingWellsFactsStoriesSeemsActionFilmStuffForgetViolenceCarCoupleSceneEssentialsHollywoodGive MeStructureShootingBroadsFadsAction Films Author:Clint Eastwood
“I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.” WorldWayDifferentDoneWholeActionFilmEnjoyDirectorsHollywoodInternationalScalesJapanSheerCrewOther WorldsEnviousAction Films Author:Tadanobu Asano
“As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.” ThinkingHas BeensFactsActionFilmGuyHeroConcernedHollywoodSequenceCopyingBollywoodBash Author:Vijender Singh
“Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.” PeopleIfsWayWantMeanSelfActionVirtueClearHeroHollywoodCapitalistVirtuous Author:Alex Tabarrok
“The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4."” WantI CanActionLife IsStarsCan DoHoursDirectorsHollywoodScriptsProducersAsiaRush Hour Author:Jackie Chan
“The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.” ActionActingTasteHollywoodDepthInspiredDetermined Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.” PeopleKnowsCountryActionTogetherFormGuyCuttingMissingSceneConsciousUnderstoodHollywoodHorseWesternMediumsCriticizeVehicleBad GuysGood GuyNuanceScenery Author:John Wayne
“Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and also to keep on finding new ways of doing it becomes - Hollywood can be avant garde on what concerns action.” WayKindActionFindingsConcernToolsHollywoodNew WaysAvant Garde Author:Violante Placido
“I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to that. I have tons of DVDs now at home. I don't know what to do with them because they're not useful anymore. My kids never watched them. I read a lot of autobiographies, listened to a lot of music by classical era composers like Franz Waxman, Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman and Leonard Bernstein. I listened to only that kind of music the entire time I was writing, even at home.” KnowsWritingKindHomeKidsActionHollywoodErasComposerAutobiographyMaxDvdsNewman Author:Michel Hazanavicius
“When we wrapped Resident Evil, we were a 3D movie, but it was no big deal. And then, Avatar came out and the whole of Hollywood was like, "Look at these grosses! 3D is huge. Let's all be 3D!" We just got on with doing what we were doing, which was making what we think is a really quality, kick-ass 3D movie, and we'll really be the first live-action 3D movie of the year.” ThinkingYearsFirstsLooksWholeBigsActionEvilDealsQualityHugeHollywoodAssKicksBig DealResidentsKick AssResident Evil Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.” HardPlayActionDiesDifficultDarkGunHollywoodExplosionsAction MovieCerebralHamptons Author:Alan Rickman
“I think it's nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that's relatable and funny and interesting.” ThinkingBookBigsActionInterestingBreakNiceHollywoodComicComic BookRelatableAction Movie Author:Aubrey Plaza
“There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.” ThinkingYearsMadeShowsActionLinesTvsHollywoodFinalsEmsTv ShowsPopulist Author:Adam McKay
“I went back to Holland and I thought 'Ok, now I made so many movies in Hollywood, I know how special effects work, how to do action for not a lot of money, and I have all of these skills now.' It was something in Holland that nobody dared to touch.” KnowsMadeActionKnow HowSpecialEffectsSkillsHollywoodLots Of MoneyHollandSpecial Effects Author:Roel Reine
“I hope I can make some Hollywood-type action films like 'Batman' or 'Spiderman', action films like that. With some wire work, maybe wearing a mask. Like that.” I CanActionFilmTypeHollywoodMaskWireAction FilmsWearing A Mask Author:Jackie Chan
“Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning martial arts from us. But about a decade ago, Hollywood began bringing in a number of our action choreographers, including two from my own stunt crew, where they became martial arts directors. Now, a decade later, Hollywood has learned it all, so when you look at the action films they're making now, they all use our action, our martial arts, and then add to that their own technology which is ten times better than ours, and it has to leave us dumbfounded: how did they film that?” PeopleLooksKindArtTwoUseActionFilmMy OwnNumbersTechnologyDirectorsTenHollywoodAddIncludingDecadesErasMartial ArtsCrewOur ActionsFrenzyChoreographersKung FuAction FilmsArt Director Author:Jackie Chan
“I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.” ActionStarsHollywoodDecadesAll Time Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.” MenLooksArtActionIdentitySkillsHollywoodMartial ArtsSpidersAction MovieSpider ManBourneBourne Identity Author:Donnie Yen
“There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.” WayWantActionGamesAudienceDesignFitElementsComputerGunHollywoodConstantObservationGenreVehiclePopcornMouldAllegoryRollercoasterComputer Graphics Author:Neill Blomkamp
“You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese Witherspoon stars are out of favor right now- nobody is making them. In this business, if you are an ambitious person, you don't wait for people to hand you opportunities. You have to make a way for yourself.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayPersonsMadeHandsActionOpportunityStarsWaitingRight NowHollywoodFavorsAmbitiousSuperheroJuliaAmbitious Person Author:Elizabeth Banks