Quotes about "Climate & Sustainability"

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. ”

An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience. ”

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes. ”

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. ”

In Mormon society and culture, highest values are placed on hard work, thrift, clean living, obedience to the elders and, above all, on the importance of the family. ”

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future. ”

I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven... I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can't figure out my gender. ”