When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.

On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.

It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve.

If you can get an audience to identify themselves with a character, they will subconsciously feel that their own lives are in danger. People tend to pay attention in situations like that. I think fear is the easiest, and most visceral, emotion to activate in an audience.

When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.

Now it's been fifteen years, nine games, and an enormous blast to undertake. If it were my choice, I would do this role forever. To hear anyone else's voice coming from Snake's battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest.