Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.