David Richard Ellis (September 8, 1952 – January 7, 2013) was an American film director and stuntman born in Santa Monica, California in 1952. Read full biography of David R. Ellis →
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.
So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you... →
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... →
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... →
Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.
David Richard Ellis (September 8, 1952 – January 7, 2013) was an American film director and stuntman born in Santa Monica, California in 1952.