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Shane Black Quotes

American - Actor | December 16, 1961 -

I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made.

Hate Professional Movies Worst Made

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.

Women Men Mind Vanity Want Degree

Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.

Great Money People Mind Action Get

You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor.

Passion Win Think Logic You Way

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.

Risks Think Superhero Take Able Few

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.

Music People Think New Way Sound

I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience.

Honesty Happy People Me Powerful

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

Writing Someone Doing Years Muscles

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.

Challenge Me Story Think Feel You

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.

Beginning Small Action Quiet Worst

I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.

Work Money Me Down Things Made

I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.

Love Villain Wear Suit Idea Cape

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