Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Laurence [Fishburn] helped redo some of the dialogue [in John Wick 2], he and Keanu [Reeves] workshopped it. And he couldn't have been more respectful couldn't have been more brilliant on set. I said, "look, I'm gonna have to work you a little bit here cause I only get you for three days." He never left set, was always engaging, always working on his lines, it was awesome.