Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

We're under Rigan Machado, who I think is one of the best jiu jitsu instructors at least in Los Angeles, if not in the world. We have a lot of his instructors here, as well as Japanese jiu jitsu, Japanese judo, and sambo. That was Keanu's [Reeves] recipe [in John Wick 2].

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.

In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

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 spent a lot of time with both [Laurence Fishburn and Keanu Reeves], obviously, on the Matrix trilogy. Worked a lot, on a day-to-day level, with Laurence Fishburne. And then we'd bumped into each other through the film community for years and years.