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

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.

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.

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

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

Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don't love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.

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