Once you've got a concept and a sense of themes and what it's about, then you can start to add your plot and sort of Tetris in all of the elements th…

- Shane Black

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 t…

- Shane Black

You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have those pages to use later - to gift wr…

- Shane Black

The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.

- Shane Black

An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradua…

- Shane Black

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…

- Shane Black

I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so lonely being in the solitary prison of my …

- Shane Black

I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.

- Shane Black

I wanted out of the spotlight, so I subtracted myself for a few years. I just tried to do a couple producing projects. Of course, the problem is, in …

- Shane Black