Intense Scenes Quotes

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.

I love finding balance. My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes.

I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.

I had so much of fun doing the action for 'Race 3.'

Sleep is my best friend when we're shooting 'Game of Thrones' because there are very long days and intense scenes.

After three days of shooting with Donald [ Sutherland], I was the only one he worked with for the first three days of the movie [The Winter Of Our Discontent] because of the crazy schedule. We [shot] a lot of this stuff, some of it incredibly intense and emotional. We had never had a conversation during that whole time. We didn't have time.

I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'

I always felt that, when I saw Denzel or Viola do scenes in their past films or past projects, that if it's a heavy scene, and it's requiring a lot of emotional weight, that we would have nothing but silence and incense burning in between takes just to keep things quiet.

There's a clean simplicity to the plotting of 'Sinister,' whether you like it or not. And the scares are deliberate and even heavy-handed in a way. There's not a lot of sophistication or nuance in the plotting and not much restraint in the scares - and that's a part of what makes the movie accessible.

I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

I am very, very anti-slasher.

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.

'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.

When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

With talent so stacked on a project like 'Proximity' and so many intense locations explored, it's almost impossible to showcase every highlight in the confines of one film.

I'll watch something like 'Paranormal Activity,' 'The Shining,' or 'Rosemary's Baby,' and I love them, but then I watch 'The People Under the Stairs' or 'Candyman,' and they freak me out. It's weird because I don't where the line is. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I should watch and what I shouldn't.

I like the things every actor likes - I like great, intense duet scenes with good actors.

PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.

I love doing the nighttime soap, the emotional, psychological, hard stuff that I got to tackle on 'Hannibal.'

The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.