I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there’s a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

I don’t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn’t hurt the book.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Never mistake motion for action.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn’t what I had imagined at all.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Too much TV hurts movies.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

My favorite movies of all times is ‚Doctor Zhivago,‘ and I love ‚Gone With the Wind.‘ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I know about two things: ‚Rocky III‘ and Clubber Lang, and ‚A-Team‘ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Well done is better than well said.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.