I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.

To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.