The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.
At first, when 'Boxer' came out, people were a little let down, and we worried that it might be the end for us. But then it began to grow on people. 'Boxer' bought us our creative freedom.
When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.
Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.
The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.
'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.
I've always been a fighter - it's always been a part of my personality.
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