American - Actor | December 16, 1961 -
I try to make all the action in my movies subjective: to give a sense of what it would feel like to actually be a part of it.
Shane Black
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If someone fires a gun in a movie, it should always be a big deal. I don't like movies where someone shoots at someone else but they just run away and manage to dodge the bullet. Or people are all firing at each other continuously for 10 minutes.
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I'm cynical about the type of girl that swirls in the Hollywood community.
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The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.
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What strikes me as memorable about 'Predator' was a lot of the decisions that were made so quickly turned out to be so iconic.
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I try not to think about anybody's reaction to what I do.
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I've read a thousand private-eye novels.
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Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work. But when a studio says to a writer, 'Give us some pages,' he just goes off and comes back. It's just pages, and suddenly, there's some writing on them.
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Writers are nerds.
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'Iron Man 3' was very educational. There's a train that starts moving which already has so many moving parts, and it's a constant process of animatics and storyboards and consulting meetings, and it's a very mechanical process once the script is written. It's sprawling, and they're throwing money at it to get these things accomplished.
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Whatever film I'm making, no matter how harsh or edgy it is, there has to be a core underneath the ebb and flow of it that is heartfelt.
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'Nice Guys' has darkness in it and parts that are kind of odd, but there are also parts where it's heartfelt and soulful. You can switch back and forth.
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