Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don't love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch. — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them. — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time with both [Laurence Fishburn and Keanu Reeves], obviously, on the Matrix trilogy. Worked a lot, on a day-to-day… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much. — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes. — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
I think what we want to do is - when we choreograph, when we design choreography, we try to take it from a character… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
With John Wick we wanted to do something like that. So rather than punching, kicks - and for the kind of way we wanted… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
Keanu and I were in New York, I was prepping John Wick 2. And when Keanu [Reeves], [writer] Derek Kolstad, and myself sat down… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
We're under Rigan Machado, who I think is one of the best jiu jitsu instructors at least in Los Angeles, if not in the… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
When I first met Laurence I was Keanu's [Reeves] stunt double on the first Matrix. So, a little evolution there with career status. But… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
![“I spent a lot of time with both [Laurence Fishburn and Keanu Reeves], obviously, on the Matrix trilogy. Worked a lot, on a day-to-day level, with Laurence Fishburne. And then we'd bumped into each other through the film community for years and years.” quote by Chad Stahelski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ccd/chad-stahelski-32714_community_i-spent-a-lot-of-time-with-both-laurence_1194792.jpg)
![“Keanu and I were in New York, I was prepping John Wick 2. And when Keanu [Reeves], [writer] Derek Kolstad, and myself sat down and wrote the character, it was completely, one hundred percent based on Laurence Fishburne. Like, in my head I saw this guy.” quote by Chad Stahelski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/429/chad-stahelski-32714_character_keanu-and-i-were-in-new-york-i-was-prepp_1942045.jpg)
![“We're under Rigan Machado, who I think is one of the best jiu jitsu instructors at least in Los Angeles, if not in the world. We have a lot of his instructors here, as well as Japanese jiu jitsu, Japanese judo, and sambo. That was Keanu's [Reeves] recipe [in John Wick 2].” quote by Chad Stahelski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/082/chad-stahelski-32714_ifs_we-re-under-rigan-machado-who-i-think-is_2036150.jpg)
![“When I first met Laurence I was Keanu's [Reeves] stunt double on the first Matrix. So, a little evolution there with career status. But then cut to the thirteen/fourteen years later where now I'm asking Laurence Fishburne to trust my directorial capacity [in John Wick 2].” quote by Chad Stahelski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e5c/chad-stahelski-32714_asking_when-i-first-met-laurence-i-was-keanu-s_2472077.jpg)