Excessive Action Quotes

Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

The brilliance of 'Sharknado 2' is it's more of the same - similar formula, more of the experience.

I don't usually prefer over-the-top action.

You'll go see a movie like 'Matrix 2,' and the car chase goes on and on and on and on. They had all the money in the world and all the time in the world. It doesn't make it an any better action sequence.

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

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.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

Even when they’re winning, they can’t stop spinning.

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.