Fight Direction Quotes

Shooting a fight is like shooting any other scene. You have to tell a story using a very specific choreography.

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

I'm not anymore because I haven't kept up with my certification, but I was a certified actor combatant in rapier, dagger, hand-to-hand, and quarterstaff.

I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!

I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.

Fight scenes are like learning a dance. You learn it move by move, and then you put it all together and it looks awesome when you edit it together. It's great!

Doing fight scenes in movies is a lot different than in WWE, but it was still relatively easy.

I went to acting school, and I polished my dancing, but I didn't really learn how to fight.

I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

Everyone realizes when it comes to fight scenes, that's gonna be my wheelhouse.

I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody.

I love action. I love stage combat.

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.

At drama school, I got a job choreographing and teaching the fights for Mark Rylance doing 'Hamlet' at the Globe in London when I was only 19. They made me fight captain.

I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff's always my favorite.

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.

I've done a lot of fight scenes, and I always find that it's better that they be meticulously choreographed. You want them to look as real as possible, but you don't want anyone to get hurt. So I believe in really working it out in rehearsal, and when you get to the set, just go for it 100 percent.

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.