I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.' When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.