Shane Black Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Shane Black quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 63 year old American actor born on Dec 16, 1961.
“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.”
“I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story.”
“I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.”
“Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.”
“I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.”
“I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.”
“I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.”
“I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.”
“Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.”
“The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.”
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