“Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hu...” — John McTiernan Quote

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

I just love action movies. People are like, 'What comedy movies did you grow up watching?' And I'm like, 'Not many.'

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

I did not watch many of my father's films because he used to do action movies. So when anyone punched my dad I used to get scared. I have loved him in comedies. I loved him in 'Hera Pheri.'

I like action movies.