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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.

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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.

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I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

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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.

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I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.

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I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.

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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.

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If someone fires a gun in a movie, it should always be a big deal. I don't like movies where someone shoots at someone else but they just run away and manage to dodge the bullet. Or people are all firing at each other continuously for 10 minutes.

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I'm cynical about the type of girl that swirls in the Hollywood community.

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What strikes me as memorable about 'Predator' was a lot of the decisions that were made so quickly turned out to be so iconic.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: December 16th, 1961

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