Action film is a genre in which the protagonist or protagonists end up in a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases. Action films tend to feature a resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include life-threatening situations, a villain, or a pursuit which generally concludes in victory for the hero (though a small number of films in this genre have ended in victory for the villain instead). Advancements in CGI have made it cheaper and easier to create action sequences and other visual effects that required the efforts of professional stunt crews in the past. However, reactions to action films containing significant amounts of CGI have been mixed as films that use computer animations to create unrealistic, highly unbelievable events are often met with criticism.[1] While action has long been a recurring component in films, the "action film" genre began to develop in the 1970s along with the increase of stunts and special effects. Common action scenes in films are generally, but not limited to, car chases, fighting and gunplay or shootouts.
This genre is closely associated with the thriller and adventure genres, and they may also contain elements of spy fiction.
This would be my Idea for a script except its taken
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
