If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.

I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.