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Shane Black


American
December 16, 1961
Actor
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Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.


Shane Black
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I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.


Shane Black
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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.


Shane Black
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Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.
Shane Black
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Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.
Shane Black
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.
Shane Black
You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor.
Shane Black
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I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.
Shane Black
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