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" The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer. "

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" The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie. "

" You always start a fight scene or an action scene with, 'What are we learning about this character at the moment, and how are we gonna arc him or her in the next three minutes,' and it's no different with 'Deadpool' or 'Atomic Blonde' or 'John Wick.' "

" You can sometimes break rules in comics that you can't necessarily break in cinema. It's fun to find something cool in a comic and then try and find a way to break the same rule in another medium. "

" It's called 'John Wick' - it's really about this guy's very simple journey. We just didn't want to clutter it. It's gratifying it in its own right, in its simplicity. "

" If you're trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it's not suits and ties; it's rock and roll. "

" I'm a fan of the sensibility of comics, and I love the escapism of them and the defining of good and evil. They're just so creative, too. "

" There's an arc to an action sequence, and you need to come out the other end knowing your character better, and maybe the story has moved forward in a compelling way. "

" Take up martial arts and get proficient. Take a sword-fighting class. Dive in and immerse yourself in it as you would any other acting class, so when the opportunity comes, that skill can be really utilized, and it's not half-baked. "

" As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance. "

" You know, the 'Atomic Blonde' universe is its own universe. There's influences obviously of Bond and Bourne and 'Wick,' all the things I've been exposed to, but it is its own universe. "

" As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first. "

" People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling. "

" Coming from an action background, I always approach the action sequences in any script as kind of placeholders. "

" People want to be empowered to the point where they can thwart their enemies physically. "

" As a second unit director, you're entrusted to shoot the action sequences. On every movie, it's slightly different. "

" I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them when I understand the constraints of the movie, the locations of where we're shooting, the abilities of the actors, and where we want to go with the characters. "

" Fight choreography has far more in common with dance choreography than it does with actual martial arts. You learn martial arts techniques, but those are just the movements for the choreography. You're working with a partner in choreography. You're working on timing. "

" You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed. "

" A lot of people don't give their audiences credit. You can leave it a little mysterious. They can think about it. "

" Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film. "

" If you have John Goodman in your movie, you want to use him as much as possible. "

" I've been really fortunate in my career to do budgets at all different levels. "

" You have to make bold choices to be noticed. "

" Even when you're being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you've been through a war. It's hard. It's like playing hockey for eight hours. "

" Spies go undercover. They take on different personas. "

" Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved. "

" Friends who are directors like Jim Mangold or the Wachowskis or Zack Snyder - who, whether they know or not - have really left a mark on who I am as a director. "

" Music emotionally and psychologically transports you immediately. "

" I find fight scenes actually more interesting, in a way, than chase scenes because you're watching your character go through this problem-solving process and fight the antagonist mano-a-mano. It's more powerful, more emotional. "