I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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When you're here working 85 hours a week and you go home and sleep and shower and come right back, that's the hardest thing. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the 100 million films that are coming up. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It's fantastic that this top horse is going to be staying in New Zealand, owned by New Zealanders and trained by Mark Walker, our top man. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
like it or not, e-mail is used for file transfer. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Then Gorky Park was my first big feature. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common. - David Ellis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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