The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters. Shane Black Read Quote
What strikes me as memorable about ‘Predator’ was a lot of the decisions that were made so quickly turned out to be so iconic. Shane Black Read Quote
Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they’re doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work. But when a studio says to a writer, ‘Give us some pages,’ he just goes off and comes back. It’s just pages, and suddenly, there’s some writing on them. Shane Black Read Quote
Whatever film I’m making, no matter how harsh or edgy it is, there has to be a core underneath the ebb and flow of it that is heartfelt. Shane Black Read Quote
Nice Guys’ has darkness in it and parts that are kind of odd, but there are also parts where it’s heartfelt and soulful. You can switch back and forth. Shane Black Read Quote
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. Shane Black Read Quote
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. Shane Black Read Quote
