29 Quotes by David R. Ellis

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

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.

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.

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.

Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.