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Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

I love my martial arts and action movies. They give another dimension to the acting world: the emotional plus the physical.

I don't like when I watch a fight in a movie that's perfectly worded and very articulate. If you were able to be that composed, you wouldn't be fighting! Fighting in real life is sloppy.

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.