Shane Black Quotes

American - Actor Born: December 16, 1961

Estimation, assessment, looking back, retrospecting things - those are intellectual concepts, and they're always so subject to shifts in the wind. Shane Black

Looking Back, Always, Back

Writers are nerds. Shane Black

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. Shane Black

Think, Collage, Tapestry

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. Shane Black

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

Movie, Immediately, Any

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. Shane Black

Other, Subtlety, Very

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. Shane Black

Film, Too Much, Ultimately

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. Shane Black

Think, Always, I Think

You have to keep surprising your audience. Shane Black

Audience, Your, Keep

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain. Shane Black

Pain, Real Pain, Laborious

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. Shane Black

Stupid, Reason, I Think

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.' Shane Black

Game, Like, Films

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

Movies, Made, Ever

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. Shane Black

Mind, Want, Still

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. Shane Black

Mind, Some, Which

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. Shane Black

Reason, Your, Use

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

Think, Take, Very

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. Shane Black

I Think, Very, Hundred

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. Shane Black

Through, Making Movies

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

Doing, Then, Excruciating

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No. Shane Black

Think, Audience, I Think

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. Shane Black

Small, Big, Differentiation

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

Some, Turned, Lots

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

Love, I Love, Super

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

Give, Like, Subjective

I'm cynical about the type of girl that swirls in the Hollywood community. Shane Black

Hollywood, About, Type

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