Action Thrillers Quotes

I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.'

Tony Scott, Walter Hill, Michael Mann - I'm a big action fan, full stop. And even though Michael Mann is the more celebrated film-maker than Tony Scott, I love them both in different ways.

Casino Royale' was fabulous and I saw 'Bourne Identity' over and over again.

I very much enjoy things like '24,' although I suspect that's run its course.

If you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies, and so on. So in other words, I'm no specialist, because I've done everything. I'm a specialist in music.

My 'Rot & Ruin' series is a post-apocalyptic adventure for teens. My 'Joe Ledger' novels are science-based action thrillers for adults. My 'Dead of Night' stories are zombie tales for adults; my 'Pine Deep Trilogy' is classic horror for adults, and I've written nonfiction books on topics ranging from martial arts to folklore.

As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie. After 'Headhunters,' I went to Hollywood and read a lot of scripts: lots of action thrillers and heist movies, and superhero films.

I only do television if it's something really good like '24.'

I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts.

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.

I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.