Gareth Evans

“I enjoy watching superhero movies.”

“Doing long shots, no matter how good the fighter is, fatigue sets in, and mistakes crop up.”

“In real life, I balk. Even seeing a real fight, I feel horrible.”

“When I was nine I wrote my first little script and it was terrible and thank God none of us had a video camera so there's no evidence of this.”

“In a typical martial arts film, you have a hero shot: a close-up tight angle of the hero looking past the camera, right before he defeats the opponent. That's cool, but it's not my thing. I don't like posturing.”

“I really like the 'Bourne' films but the editing style during the action scenes has been overdone.”

“I'm not a massive fan of POV shots usually. I find them to be quite distracting; they remove you from the story you're telling.”

“I certainly got influenced by Shane Black cause I just love Shane Black's work anyway.”

“I feel like audiences will get behind a hero like that. They get behind people who are not necessarily going to power-drive their way through a situation.”

“The Raid 2' was always the project I really wanted to make, and it had been in my head for three years at that point. If I'd gone off to pursue something elsewhere I would have had to cast it aside, and I would have regretted that forever.”

“The problem is I have this thing when I do a film, I really want to give all of myself to it. Commit 100 percent to the vision on it. I can't do that in a studio environment.”

“I think all martial arts have a brutality to them.”

“I just don't know how to make a PG-13 movie.”

“In a drama, you're always looking for things to create conflict with.”

“I would never have watched 'Back to the Future II' without seeing the first one because you can't follow it.”

“When I was a kid the first Bruce Lee film I ever saw was 'Enter The Dragon,' and after that I was hooked. I really wanted to see more, but I was only five or six years old. I was way too young, and my mum really didn't want me watching them.”

“I was supposed to make another action film after 'The Raid 2.' It was going to be my first U.S. film. And then that kind fell by the wayside.”

“I hadn't seen 'The Devils' until about two months before we started writing 'Apostle.' It would always play in documentaries about extreme cinema or documentaries about censorship in the U.K., because it had a very controversial history.”

“Pulse had the rights to the 'Gangs of London' game and they wanted it to be a film franchise. One of the things about London is you hear between 10 and 15 different languages, and we wanted to explore the diversity of the city.”

“I'm nervous about my kids seeing action without emotional consequences. Especially in a movie that might be rated PG-13, but just because it doesn't show much blood. That, to me, is more risky than watching an action movie where you're aware of the characters' pain and suffering.”