I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time that I decided to do action films, people were telling me, "Well, you can't do it. You're not that type. It's not going to work." And so obviously that made me think, "Well, that's not comfortable. Maybe I should try it. What can I do with it?" So I did that, and I'm glad I did it. I'll probably do it again, and I did other kinds of things that seemed like challenges for me, because I like being on the high wire.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

Without mentioning any names, I looked at pretty much every story that may come to your mind about a politician on the rise who was stopped short or dragged down by personal flaws and then became just a media storm. I see this as a thing that continues to happen in America and I wanted to say something about that.