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Shane Black
Shane Black
American Actor
Born: Dec 16, 1961
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Estimation, assessment, looking back, retrospecting things - those are intellectual concepts, and they're always so subject to shifts in the wind. Shane Black
Wind Looking Looking Back Back Those Concepts Always Shifts Subject Intellectual Estimation Assessment Things
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience. Shane Black
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Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain. Shane Black
Writing Job Pain Real Real Pain Laborious Scripts
I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up. Shane Black
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I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.' Shane Black
Work Game Films Pleasures Guilty Failed Like Them Watch
Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind. Shane Black
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You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor. Shane Black
You Win Passion Argument Think Way Favor Though Possible Logic Case More Recourse Argue Writer Altered Get Legally Any Script Might Then Use Your Reason Even
Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar. Shane Black
Music People Pure Think Incredibly Hundred Way Broke Favorite Similar Bruce Park Taken New Piece Sort Sound Springsteen Very Just Paved Ground Whole Album
I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience. Shane Black
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For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles. Shane Black
Writing Else Stayed Someone Excruciating Got Doing Years Scripts Then Thin Muscles
The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout. Shane Black
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I try to make all the action in my movies subjective: to give a sense of what it would feel like to actually be a part of it. Shane Black
Try Sense Action Would Give Part Feel Like Make Subjective Movies Actually
What strikes me as memorable about 'Predator' was a lot of the decisions that were made so quickly turned out to be so iconic. Shane Black
Me Made Strikes Out Memorable About Were Lot Quickly Predator Decisions Iconic Turned
Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work. But when a studio says to a writer, 'Give us some pages,' he just goes off and comes back. It's just pages, and suddenly, there's some writing on them. Shane Black
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Writers are nerds. Shane Black
Nerds Writers
Whatever film I'm making, no matter how harsh or edgy it is, there has to be a core underneath the ebb and flow of it that is heartfelt. Shane Black
Matter Whatever Harsh Edgy Underneath How Making Heartfelt Film Flow Core
I think, in big-budget movies where everything seems so poured over and restricted and the studio wants to examine every frame to make sure it's vetted properly, you lose a little bit of playfulness. Shane Black
You Lose Every Think Frame Everything Bit Examine Restricted Seems Properly Poured Studio Over Make Sure Where Wants Little Movies Little Bit
For me, the stamp that I impose on stuff comes from the fact that in the '80s, when I was starting to write movies, I looked back to the '70s. So the films I enjoyed as a kid were the thrillers that came out of the '70s. Back then, you didn't have action movies; you had adventure films or thrillers. Shane Black
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'Lethal Weapon' sold apropos of nothing when I was very young, but that was a very different market. Shane Black
Young Nothing Market Sold Weapon Very Different Lethal
I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself to the level of literature. Shane Black
Chill Example Macdonald Say Would Detective Genre Sort How Private Itself Literature Level
I go back to read 'Tarzan' books every now and again or 'John Carter,' and you realize Edgar Rice Burroughs is not a great writer by any means. But he was a great storyteller. You wanted to see what happened next. Shane Black
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