Quotes by Chad Stahelski - Page 1

I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.
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Men
Hate
Members
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If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room.
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Smartest
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Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.
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Character
Imperfection
Superhero
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I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.
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Actors
Mean
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I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.
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Belief
Strong
Watches
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In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them.
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Citizens
Facts
Important
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I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.
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Firsts
Thinking
Too Much
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Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.
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Acting
Actors
Example
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I guess I have kind of a type. Pretty much anybody who shows up in a black leather overcoat, I've doubled for them.
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Leather
Overcoat
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The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.
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Heroes
Falling
Stunts
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Production wants a miracle on every movie. They want us to do something new and amazing - but then they give you a 55-year-old actor with sciatica who doesn't want to train.
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Something New
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With John Wick we wanted to do something like that. So rather than punching, kicks - and for the kind of way we wanted to shoot it, which is longer takes - our initial instinct was let's go with a throwing or grappling arm.
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Arms
Punching
Way
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Say you can't put one foot in front of the other, you punch like a child, and you're not flexible at all. We'll show you some aikido, some ground jujitsu, some gun stuff, some knife moves. We can make a pretty good-size dent with that.
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Flexible
Gun
Dent
Foot
Punch
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For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.
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Being Afraid
Best Myself Me
Talented
Sharper
Surrounding
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I spent a lot of time with both [Laurence Fishburn and Keanu Reeves], obviously, on the Matrix trilogy. Worked a lot, on a day-to-day level, with Laurence Fishburne. And then we'd bumped into each other through the film community for years and years.
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Community
Levels
Years
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Keanu and I were in New York, I was prepping John Wick 2. And when Keanu [Reeves], [writer] Derek Kolstad, and myself sat down and wrote the character, it was completely, one hundred percent based on Laurence Fishburne. Like, in my head I saw this guy.
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New York
Character
Guy
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Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don't love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.
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Character
Hero
Stars
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We're under Rigan Machado, who I think is one of the best jiu jitsu instructors at least in Los Angeles, if not in the world. We have a lot of his instructors here, as well as Japanese jiu jitsu, Japanese judo, and sambo. That was Keanu's [Reeves] recipe [in John Wick 2].
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Recipes
Thinking
World
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When I first met Laurence I was Keanu's [Reeves] stunt double on the first Matrix. So, a little evolution there with career status. But then cut to the thirteen/fourteen years later where now I'm asking Laurence Fishburne to trust my directorial capacity [in John Wick 2].
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Careers
Cutting
Years
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Laurence [Fishburn] helped redo some of the dialogue [in John Wick 2], he and Keanu [Reeves] workshopped it. And he couldn't have been more respectful couldn't have been more brilliant on set. I said, "look, I'm gonna have to work you a little bit here cause I only get you for three days." He never left set, was always engaging, always working on his lines, it was awesome.
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Lines
Looks
Three
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I think what we want to do is - when we choreograph, when we design choreography, we try to take it from a character standpoint first. Obviously you write a script and it's like, a Jason Bourne or a John Wick or something like that, you don't start choreographing double twisting wire moves and backflips, or doing the splits. You try to keep it so it fits the character, or the tone of the film.
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Character
Moving
Writing
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