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" People want to be empowered to the point where they can thwart their enemies physically. "

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" I think what's really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, 'We know it works! We'll use that old chestnut.' "

" Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers. "

" I've been really fortunate in my career to do budgets at all different levels. "

" The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie. "

" The thing that I like about action sequences is that if they're done well, you get to know more about the character in those few minutes than you do through 10 minutes of exposition. "

" Music emotionally and psychologically transports you immediately. "

" I'm a fan of the sensibility of comics, and I love the escapism of them and the defining of good and evil. They're just so creative, too. "

" You know, the 'Atomic Blonde' universe is its own universe. There's influences obviously of Bond and Bourne and 'Wick,' all the things I've been exposed to, but it is its own universe. "

" You have to make bold choices to be noticed. "

" As a second unit director, you're entrusted to shoot the action sequences. On every movie, it's slightly different. "

" The character of Cable is complex. "

" It's called 'John Wick' - it's really about this guy's very simple journey. We just didn't want to clutter it. It's gratifying it in its own right, in its simplicity. "

" A lot of people don't give their audiences credit. You can leave it a little mysterious. They can think about it. "

" You can sometimes break rules in comics that you can't necessarily break in cinema. It's fun to find something cool in a comic and then try and find a way to break the same rule in another medium. "

" Some actors have an affinity for dance, and they should explore it, train in it, and get good. "

" Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they're that character. That is something you can't teach an actor; that's something that's luck and chance. "

" In the stunt world, fights and vehicles are often two different disciplines. "

" The DNA of 'Deadpool' shouldn't change. "

" I've been doing second unit for years, which is sort of like directing mini movies. Now that I'm directing entire films, it's really just more of everything. There are a lot more questions that need answers. "

" While filming 'The Matrix,' we studied how a Chinese fight-choreography team trains actors before production starts so that they can participate in action sequences in a more dynamic way. "

" People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling. "

" Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either. "

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" I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them when I understand the constraints of the movie, the locations of where we're shooting, the abilities of the actors, and where we want to go with the characters. "

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" Take up martial arts and get proficient. Take a sword-fighting class. Dive in and immerse yourself in it as you would any other acting class, so when the opportunity comes, that skill can be really utilized, and it's not half-baked. "

" There's an arc to an action sequence, and you need to come out the other end knowing your character better, and maybe the story has moved forward in a compelling way. "

" Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film. "

" Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved. "