I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.

I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.

I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.

With John Wick we wanted to do something like that. So rather than punching, kicks - and for the kind of way we wanted to shoot it, which is longer takes - our initial instinct was let's go with a throwing or grappling arm.

I think what we want to do is - when we choreograph, when we design choreography, we try to take it from a character standpoint first. Obviously you write a script and it's like, a Jason Bourne or a John Wick or something like that, you don't start choreographing double twisting wire moves and backflips, or doing the splits. You try to keep it so it fits the character, or the tone of the film.

Keanu and I were in New York, I was prepping John Wick 2. And when Keanu [Reeves], [writer] Derek Kolstad, and myself sat down and wrote the character, it was completely, one hundred percent based on Laurence Fishburne. Like, in my head I saw this guy.