Explosive Scenes Quotes

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

When you only have $15 million, you have to talk about something interesting. You can't just cut to a helicopter exploding.

I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.

Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!'

The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

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.

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.

The biggest challenge [making Pineapple Express] was that we had a comedy budget. We really got excited the more we got into the development of it about blowing stuff up and having shoot outs. That stuff costs money.

I would love to try action films.

I've been doing sci-fi for two years, and there is always something big going on. The stakes are always huge. You're fighting for your life, or you're dealing with personal stuff. It has really high stakes attached to it, and there are green screen and explosions. You're going out on these really cool locations.

I was made for action movies.

The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.

A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.