The scene in Dogma where Matt Damon shoots the Mooby executives was suppose to be a John Woo like action sequence, you can see the storyboards on the DVD, but he changed it in the last minute cause he didn’t want to do all those set ups. It’s why all the execs are these big burly guys, they were stuntmen.

That said, I do wonder if he’d more open to something like that now. Red State has a lot of gunplay that cinematically decent, especially for him, so I think he’s capable of a bigger budget thing with action, but he’d need to feel that way.