Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
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I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.
I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.
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.
I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.
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