I think any time you can go after an audience that isn't built in, that's the job.

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.

I've never been a big gore guy.

I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.

I played sports in high school and in college.