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I was a huge fan of the Bruce Timm animated series and, of course, the live action 'Lois & Clark' series. I watched that when I was in college.

If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be someone from the police or the Army.

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.

When people talk about this idea of being a Welsh guy from the Valleys who travelled off to Indonesia to make martial arts action movies, on paper, it sounds really bizarre. But because everything happens in real time for me, it's just been a smooth process, it hasn't been weird.

I think a lot of people have become quite disenfranchised with action films, especially when they hide the choreography with quick cuts and close-ups.

I'm nervous about my kids seeing action without emotional consequences. Especially in a movie that might be rated PG-13, but just because it doesn't show much blood. That, to me, is more risky than watching an action movie where you're aware of the characters' pain and suffering.

Once 'The Raid' one and two had come out, as great and wonderful as those films were for me creatively, it became a thing where I was like 'Action? No.'

I didn't want to be, like 'the action guy.' Not that that's a bad thing, it was just I knew that I wanted to try my hand in different things.

When it came time to design the action for 'Gangs' I knew that there'd be a level of expectation. What I wanted to do was play into some of the tropes that you would expect from a show called 'Gangs of London.'

Good action should tell you things about your characters.

For me, 'The Raid' was survival horror. It had thriller elements, tension elements, gunfire, martial arts, and action - throw all of those things together and see if they can fit well. All of those things played a part.

From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.

A lot of action heroes, we're told they are heroic primarily because they commit violence upon the bad guy. It can be cathartic; it can be thrilling. But at some point, I think you want more from your heroes than just the ability and willingness to pummel someone.

Most of the time a wrestler misses the in-ring action, but because of my back and working with the girls as an agent, I don't miss it.

Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

We know that we can't make contact with the baseball with our front foot not firmly planted in the ground. So, in our cage drills we work on being on time and not rushing this action.

It's not like I am going to Barcelona as a tourist who is there to watch Messi in action. I am not going to say that I will bench Busquets or anything! But I think I have a good chance of getting plenty of minutes.

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks.