High-Stakes Action Quotes

I think that the 'Bourne Trilogy,' it's definitely redefined the genre and took it to a new level. It was really great to be part of that experience. It is a very smart movie and a very smart script, great director, and great, you know, fellow actors.

I'm really up for the challenge physically to go into sci-fi action, thinking-man's action.

The '7500' is with Leslie Bibb. It's a big ensemble with a lot of really good people. I play the pilot of the 747 that something happens on as it crosses the Pacific. It's going to do what 'Jaws' did to the ocean. Not make people want to get on!

I mean, that's playoff hockey. You're not going to dominate every game, you're not going to score every goal.

If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.

I grew up on action movies. I love the James Bond and Jason Bourne movies.

I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.

One of the things that makes the Bourne movies so exciting, I think, is you do get to go on a journey. Generally, through the franchise, that journey is in Europe.

The action scenes you'll see in 'Saaho' are all real - it's going to look fantastic.

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

I thought I was going to make bigger films for mass audiences. And I wanted that. I actually had in mind a James-Bondian thriller.

So, yes, 'Codename Baboushka' is all-action and over-the-top, at least by my standards. But it also has a complex, multifaceted protagonist, a deep mystery at its core, and a kind of humanity that, through all the bullets and high-kicks, is really the soul of the book.

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.